political
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɪtɪkəl/
ipa: /pəˈlɪtɪkəl/
ipa: [pəˈlɪɾɪkəl]
ipa: /pəˈlɪtəkəl/
ipa: [pəˈlɪɾəkəl]
ipa: /pəˈlɪtɪkəl/
ipa: [pəˈlɪɾɪkəl]
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵl(ɪ)ˈʈɪkəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɔl(ɪ)ʈɪkəl/
Forms: form: more political
form: most political
form: politicall
Etymology: From politic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the opposition.
text: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref: 2012 January 23, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 87:
text: That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2016:
glosses: Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
examples: text: Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.
glosses: Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
examples: text: The media accused the Federal Reserve chairman's decision to cut rates before the election as being political.
glosses: Inappropriately motivated by political calculation, as it pertains to elections, power dynamics, ideologies, etc.
glosses: Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.
glosses: Interested in politics.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: politic
Derived terms: aeropolitical
antipolitical
apolitical
astropolitical
biopolitical
culturopolitical
cyberpolitical
econopolitical
ecopolitical
ethicopolitical
ethnopolitical
Europolitical
extrapolitical
genopolitical
geopolitical
historicopolitical
hyperpolitical
ideopolitical
impolitical
infrapolitical
interpolitical
juridico-political
juridicopolitical
macropolitical
macro-socio-political
megapolitical
metapolitical
micropolitical
necropolitical
neuropolitical
new political thinking
parapolitical
party political
party political broadcast
petropolitical
political agent
political animal
political arithmetic
political asylum
political blackness
political capital
political cartoon
political cartoonist
political climate
political commissar
political consumerism
political correction
political correctness
political corrector
political crime
political-economic
political economist
political economy
political entity
politicalese
political football
political geography
political homelessness
political incorrectness
politicalism
politicality
politicalize
political lesbian
political lesbianism
politically
politically correct
political machine
political machinery
political map
political marketing
politicalness
political officer
political opposition
political party
political price fixing
political prisoner
political regime
political risk
political science
political scientist
politicalspeak
political spectrum
political system
political unit
political vacuum
politicide
politicore
postpolitical
power-political
prepolitical
pseudopolitical
psychopolitical
religiopolitical
semipolitical
sociopolitical
socio-political
socio-political-economic
superpolitical
technopolitical
telepolitical
theopolitical
unpolitical
Related terms: politician
politicize
politick
politico