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untheoretical adjective uk /ˌʌn.θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˌʌn.θiː.əˈret̬.ə.kəl/ based on or involving feelings rather than facts, proof, or theory: He criticized the article for being untheoretical and merely descriptive. As an artist, he has always been intuitive and untheoretical. Compare
theoretical The sculptor's untheoretical understanding of the female body is problematic today but the work is so confident that it defies criticism. The introduction of an army produced a quite untheoretical joy in danger, mastery, and victory. English culture is presented as inward-looking, complacent, unreflective, and untheoretical. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Ideas, concepts and theories abstract abstraction accepted wisdom afterthought anthropocentrism Darwinism Darwinist determinist Dianetics meat motif musings natalism non-dogmatic reification sacred cow social Darwinism straw man supersensible the domino theory |