Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or dealing with the structure or affairs of government, politics, or the state.
- adj. Relating to, involving, or characteristic of politics or politicians: "Calling a meeting is a political act in itself” ( Daniel Goleman).
- adj. Relating to or involving acts regarded as damaging to a government or state: political crimes.
- adj. Interested or active in politics: I'm not a very political person.
- adj. Having or influenced by partisan interests: The court should never become a political institution.
- adj. Based on or motivated by partisan or self-serving objectives: a purely political decision.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating or pertaining to politics, or the science of government; treating of polity or government: as, political authors.
- Possessing a definite polity or system of government; administering a definite polity.
- Relating to or concerned in public policy and the management of the affairs of the state or nation; of or pertaining to civil government, or the enactment of laws and the administration of civil affairs: as, political action; political rights; a political system; political parties; a political officer.
- Politic; sagacious; prudent; artful; skilful.
- “A captain bold of Halifax, who lived in country quarters.”
- This is the favorite meter in modern Greek poetry.
- Political in this connection means ‘common,’ ‘usual,’ ‘ordinary’.
- Synonyms See politic.
- n. A political officer or agent, as distinguished from military, commercial, and diplomatic officers or agents; specifically, in India, an officer of the British government who deals with native states or tribes and directs their political affairs.
- n. A political offender or prisoner.
Wiktionary
- adj. Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
- adj. Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
- adj. pejorative Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation.
- adj. Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.
- adj. of a person Interested in politics.
- n. A political agent or officer.
- n. a publication centred around politics
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
- adj. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration.
- adj. Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state.
- adj. obsolete Politic; wise; also, artful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power
- adj. involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
- adj. of or relating to the profession of governing
Etymologies
- From Latin politicus, ultimately from Greco-Latin polis '(city) state' (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Dear President Obama, 3 federal judges say you must act to end 'political purgatory' for 23 million
“The * political* reality (as Dean well knows, and the media and bloggers should point out) is that as electeds and political animals (though, it must be said, fearful ones it appears) supers are very, very, very unlikely to overturn the leader in pledged delegates.”
“If he predicted a revolutionary crisis, it was to come from a life-and-death struggle of the working people in self-defense, in a desperate effort to protect economic and political rights, but especially _political_ rights, which, as the labor unionist, von Elm, said at this congress, were "the key to all.”
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
“The fundamental principle of our political fabric, the _political_ equality of all men, has afforded ample opportunity for designing persons to mislead the uninformed among the mass, and to make them believe that _political_ equality means social, intellectual, and moral equality, that all are in fact equal in all respects in society, and that their rights are infringed by their exclusion from such recognition.”
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“With regard to the political and metaphysical parts, I am afraid I can alter nothing; but I have high authority for my errors in that point, for even the _Æneid_ was a _political_ poem, and written for”
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
“I answer, it has nothing to do with my Memoirs, as I was not in London during the whole of the row; but I shall by and by show, that it had a great deal more to do with political matters, or rather with a _political party, _ than was at the time imagined, or than is even now suspected.”
“The political crisis is about the accountability of political power.”
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“Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed.”
“For some, the label "political activist" seems too technical to describe how they're learning to balance being Muslim wives and mothers along with their desire to shape Egypt's future.”
“FDRbyGodDemocrat: Did Karl Rove just use the term "political minions"?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘political’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Coruscatingly what?
List of adjectival terms, from aggressive to zippered, paired in printed materials with the adverb coruscatingly, identified by a simple query to Google Search (Books).
...propaedeutic...aggressive, angry, articulate, astringent, aware, beautiful, big, blinding, bright, brilliant, brutal, cerebral and 93 more...
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Words with Method to their Madness
Patterned words! Any word that alternates vowels and consonants with no consonants next to each other, and no vowels next to each other. (And a letter limit of no less than 5)
eleven, every, vowel, lemon, alibi, hopes, limit, cures, caravan, emirate, united arab emirates, honorificabilitud... and 114 more...
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waterfront words
themes and values
heroism, love, power, brotherhood, niave, entrapment, alienation, immorality, conscience, remorse, loyalty, confusion and 25 more...
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party lines
types of parties
birthday, hen, surprise, tea, dinner, coming out, hunting, communist, political, third, first, guilty and 25 more...
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EU - What was Joao talking about in 2...
The 100 most frequent words in Joao Barroso's "State of the European Union" address in September 2011
working, treaty, promote, problem, people, necessary, national, member, market, greece, future, economy and 87 more...
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LIT - the 100 most common words of th...
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ages, already, away, become, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, capital, carried, character, class, commerce, commodity and 88 more...
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