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Historical

/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/

A historical romance.

📖 Definitions of "Historical"

noun

adjective

1
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
"July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day."
2
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
3
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
"The Royal Historical Society"
4
Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
"historical-political"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
diachronic	Occurring over or changing with time.
existentnoun	existing; having life or being, current; occurring now
realnoun	True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
historicnoun	Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
pastnoun	The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
synchronic	(linguistics) Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
descriptivenoun	Of, relating to, or providing a description.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
diachronic	Occurring over or changing with time.
historicnoun	Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
existentnoun	existing; having life or being, current; occurring now
pastnoun	The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
realnoun	True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
historically	According to history: formerly, in the past, traditionally.
historynoun	The aggregate of past events.
historiannoun	A writer of history.
chronologynoun	(uncountable) The science of determining the order in which events occurred.
chronologicalnoun	In order of time from the earliest to the latest.
storynoun	An account of real or fictional events.
timelinenoun	A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).
archivalnoun	Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
prehistoricnoun	(properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.
traditionalnoun	Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
epochal	(figurative) Highly important or significant; monumental, epoch-making.
initialnoun	The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
epoch-making	Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
ground-breakingnoun	(idiomatic) innovative, different than other things of its type.
originalnoun	(not comparable) Newly created.