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cognitive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of cognitive

technical of, relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering)

cognitive development

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of cognitive

empirical (also empiric)

analytic (or analytical), coherent, consequent, good, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded

a posteriori, a priori, syllogistic

defendable, defensible, justifiable, maintainable, supportable, sustainable, tenable

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of cognitive

casuistic (or casuistical), eristic (also eristical), fallacious, misleading, sophistic (or sophistical), specious

absurd, cockeyed, crazy, daffy, fatuous, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, insane, loony (also looney), mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, simpleminded, stupid, weak-minded, witless

senseless, thoughtless

uncompelling, unconvincing

illegitimate, illogical, incoherent, inconsequent, inconsequential, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unsound, weak

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