-ical
a combination of -ic and -al1 , used in forming adjectives from nouns (rhetorical), providing synonyms to words ending in -ic, (poetical), and providing an adjective with additional meanings to those in the -ic, form (economical).
-ical
suffix
a variant of -ic economical, fanatical
derived forms
word origin
-ical
adj. suffix, mostly the same as -ic but sometimes with specdialized sense (e.g. historic/historical), m.e., from l.l. -icalis, from l. -icus + -alis.
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