systematic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective characterized by order and planning
    • the investigation was very systematic
    • a systematic administrator
  2. adjective of or relating to taxonomy
    taxonomic; taxonomical.
    • taxonomic relations
    • a taxonomic designation

WordNet

Sys`tem*at"ic, Sys`tem*at"ic*al adjective (Also<
  • Systematic
  • Systematical
)
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study.
    Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. I. Watts.
    A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell.
  2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.
  3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical.
    These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle.
  4. (Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. affecting the whole body, as contrasted with local.

Webster 1913