From catēgoricus + -al.

• (America, Canada) IPA: /ˌkætəˈɡɔɹɪk(ə)l/

categorical

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74:

     Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

• (absolute; having no exception) absolute, categoric, unconditional, categorial

• (antonym(s) of “absolute; having no exception”): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

• categoricity

• French: catégorique
• German: kategorisch
• Italian: categoriale
• Portuguese: categórico, taxativo
• Russian: категори́ческий
• Spanish: tajante, categórico

• French: catégoriel, catégorielle
• German: kategorisch
• Italian: categoriale
• Portuguese: categórico

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.