method

Speech parts

1. method - Noun

2. method - Verb

Meaning

An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.

Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.

Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

way system process mode means order style practice course approach plan manner mechanism procedure routine
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Antonyms

babel caprice bedlam melange maelstrom violence
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Hypernyms

playing acting performing know-how playacting

Hyponyms

system model anatomy drill solution methodology

Phrases with the word

method in the madness scientific method Debye-Scherrer method my very easy method just speeds up naming planets method to one's madness Fowler's method

Anagrams

thedom

Examples

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Jane Addams

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Hilaire Belloc

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (William Shakespeare) English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

metho- methocarbamol methoctramine method acting method acting said method actor