systematic

Carried out according to a planned, ordered procedure.

Adjective

  1. Carried out according to a planned, ordered procedure.
    • The existence of a systematic nomenclature for the unknown elements does not deny the right of 'discoverers' of new elements to suggest other names to the Commission after their discovery has been established beyond all...
  2. Methodical; regular and orderly.
    • Particular note, in this period, should be made of the actions of Joseph Denman, commander of the Northern Division of the Squadron, who went on an absolutely ruthless and systematic campaign along the African coast,...

    Antonyms: chaotic haphazard

  3. Treating an object as a system or coherent whole.
    • the systematic study of religious beliefs
  4. Of or relating to taxonomic classification.
  5. Of, relating to, or in accordance with generally recognized conventions for the naming of chemicals.
  6. Of, relating to, or being a system.
    • But the systematic judgment is altogether unprofitable. Its author has not really his eye upon the professed object of his criticism at all, but upon something else, which he wants to prove by means of that object. […]...
    • And Paruta’s work also suggests that Venetians in the generation following the battle of Lepanto, although without altogether abandoning systematic views, were tending increasingly to look to history for their...

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin systēmaticus, from Koine Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós), from σύστημᾰ (sústēmă, “a composite; system”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix). Cognate with French systématique and Italian sistematico. By surface analysis, system + -atic.

Forms

more systematic most systematic systematick

Antonyms

asystematic nonsystematic unsystematic

Related

systemic

Derived

asystematic biosystematic chemosystematic diasystematic ecosystematic intersystematic karyosystematic nonsystematic oversystematic presystematic semisystematic systematicality systematically systematic element name systematicist systematicity systematic name systematicness systematic risk systematics systematize transsystematic ultrasystematic unsystematic

Adverb

  1. systematically
    • "So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the best and storing us in cages and...
    • And say, when them Gogs started out to put a thing through they did it systematic and thorough. - 2019, Sewell Ford, Torchy and Vee:

Forms

more systematic most systematic systematick