Maxim Synonyms

măksĭm
A usually pithy and familiar statement expressing an observation or principle generally accepted as wise or true
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. aphorism
  2. adage
  3. saying
  4. proverb
  5. byword
  6. axiom
  7. motto
  8. saw
  9. dictum
  10. apothegm
  11. catchword
  12. sir hiram stevens maxim
  13. doctrine
  14. epigram
  15. gnome
  16. logion
  17. moral
  18. pearl
  19. epithet
  20. precept
  21. rule
  22. sententia
  23. truism
  24. witticism
  25. word
A succinct formulation of a fundamental principle, general truth, or rule of conduct.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. saying
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. aphoristic
  2. apothegmatic
  3. gnomic
  4. sentential

Words Related to Maxim

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. words
  2. Jakubowski
  3. Zuboff

Maxim Sentence Examples

  • Maxim, like Langley, employed a staff of highly skilled workmen.

  • This last was the collection first known and chiefly used in the West during the middle ages; and of its 134 only 97 have been written on by the glossatores or medieval commentators; these therefore alone have been received as binding in those countries which recognize and obey the Roman law, - according to the maxim Quicquid non agnoscit glossa, nec agnoscit curia.

  • They turned the maxim that "there is no peace beyond the line" against its inventors.

  • The Royalist cavalry was disorganized by victory as often as by defeat, and illustrated on numerous fields the now discredited maxim that cavalry cannot charge twice in one day.

  • What can come nearer Hume's celebrated maxim - "Anything may be the cause of anything else," than Butler's conclusion, "so that any one thing whatever may, for aught we know to the contrary, be a necessary condition to any other."

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