Axiomatic
adjective
Something that is clearly true and requires no proof or explanation.
It is axiomatic that you get better at a skill with practice.
Often appears as...
- axiomatic truth
- axiomatic principle
adjective
Related to or based on an axiom.
In Euclidean geometry, it is axiomatic that parallel lines never meet.
Often appears as...
- axiomatic approach
- axiomatic theory
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Something that is clearly true and requires no proof or explanation.
It is axiomatic that you get better at a skill with practice.
Often appears as...
- axiomatic truth
- axiomatic principle
adjective
Related to or based on an axiom.
In Euclidean geometry, it is axiomatic that parallel lines never meet.
Often appears as...
- axiomatic approach
- axiomatic theory
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3No Proof Needed
Use 'axiomatic' for statements so clear that they don't need additional evidence or justification.
To experts, it's axiomatic that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Agreement
'Axiomatic' implies wide acceptance or common agreement on a fact or idea.
It's axiomatic among teachers that reading enhances vocabulary.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Trust
Using 'axiomatic' suggests you trust the listener to accept the statement without doubt.
In customer service, it's axiomatic that the customer is always right.
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certainestablishfundamentincontrovertibleindisputableprovequestionableundeniable
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are going through a dangerous transition I
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If A is an axiomatic statement, it can't be the case that A and the opposite of A are both true. Comedy seems to live here, to subsist on the illogic of logical contradiction and its derivatives. We laugh when the order we project on the world
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Elon Musk: A future...
that an individual can have the same wealth as, say, a billion or more of the world's poorest people. If they examine sort of -- I think there's some axiomatic flaws that are leading them to that conclusion.
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are going through a dangerous transition I
Video examples
What's the definition of...
If A is an axiomatic statement, it can't be the case that A and the opposite of A are both true. Comedy seems to live here, to subsist on the illogic of logical contradiction and its derivatives. We laugh when the order we project on the world
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
that an individual can have the same wealth as, say, a billion or more of the world's poorest people. If they examine sort of -- I think there's some axiomatic flaws that are leading them to that conclusion.
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Quote examples
Stacy Schiff
American Author
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.
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Lenny Abrahamson
Irish Director
I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.
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John Lanchester
British Journalist
It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.
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Basil Hume
English Clergyman
It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear.
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James O'Shaughnessy
American Businessman
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
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Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
American Politician
It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.
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Stacy Schiff
American Author
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.
Quote examples
Lenny Abrahamson
Irish Director
I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.
Quote examples
John Lanchester
British Journalist
It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.
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Basil Hume
English Clergyman
It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear.
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James O'Shaughnessy
American Businessman
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
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Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
American Politician
It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.
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