Crossword clues for thematic
thematic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thematic \The*mat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. th['e]matique.]
(Gram.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.
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(Mus.) Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject.
Thematic catalogue (Mus.), a catalogue of musical works which, besides the title and other particulars, gives in notes the theme, or first few measures, of the whole work or of its several movements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, in logic, from Greek thematikos, from thema (genitive thematos; see theme). From 1871 of writing or discourse. Related: Thematical; thematically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 relating to, or having a theme or a topic 2 (context music English) relating to a melodic subject 3 (context linguistics English) Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection. n. A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection
WordNet
adj. relating to or constituting a topic of discourse
of or relating to a melodic subject [ant: unthematic]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "thematic".
The woman watched while Brooke used a computer to take tests: a Rorschach, a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Interview, a Thematic Apperception Test, and a dozen others whose names she just as quickly forgot.
Hospital in Santa Monica, where she underwent the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, the Sentence Completion Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index.
On the one hand, he intends to exploit the marginality of the serious writer as a posture of unassimilatability, as a means of avoiding becoming one more shelf item, which has to do not only with the thematic politicization of the novel but also with the tinge of dread that structural unresolvability instills.
Tom, though this scenario has been well built up over three novels, and it could have been the true and most resonant thematic resolution of the whole sequence, a characterological resolution, a political resolution, a mighty aesthetic resolution.
The double inclusion of his donjuanesque questioning of time, which is both a principle of writing and a thematic goal, creates a fascinating synthesis of the novel where, as we have seen many times, the esthetic, ethical, erotic and historical functions combine in a single existential flow.
To the neat and symmetrical periods of the Haydn symphony and sonata, with their fresh, thematic treatment, Mozart added a tender grace and sweetness like the conceptions of a Raphael in painting.
If Dale were just a little more hip about it, he'd be a cyberpunk, but for thematic reasons Updike chose to make Dale a born-again Christian.
Alerted by an attack of nausea and vertigo (and such an attack does not now seem to [her] an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968'), Miss Didion enrolled as a private outpatient of the psychiatric clinic at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, where she underwent the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, the Sentence Completion Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index.
The order of nature, and the obdurate and thematic equations of dominance and submission, denied though they might be, and even if hysterically repudiated, will continue to lurk in the microstructures of every cell in the human body.
He possessed hammers and screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers, saws and a miter box, a battery-powered drill with an array of bits, screws and nails, rope and wire, brackets of all kinds, and everything else a handyman might need, all of it purchased at Sears when he had realized that properly arranging and displaying each piece in his collection would require the construction of some clever supports and, in a couple of cases, thematic backdrops.
The Thematic Apperception Test was a psychological test that consisted of a series of ambiguous pictures.
The woman watched while Brooke used a computer to take tests: a Rorschach, a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Interview, a Thematic Apperception Test, and a dozen others whose names she just as quickly forgot.
If your goal is to see how far you can push me, then just give me the goddam Rorschach or Thematic Apperception Test and be done with it.