political
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English politic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English political
From politic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more political
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most political
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: politicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: politicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: politicall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
pos: adj
examples: Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.
gloss: Inappropriately motivated by political calculation, as it pertains to elections, power dynamics, ideologies, etc.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: The media alleged that the Federal Reserve chairman’s decision to cut rates before the election was political.
gloss: Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.
pos: adj
gloss: Interested in politics.
pos: adj
gloss: A political agent or officer.
pos: noun
examples: One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political, who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.
gloss: A publication focusing on politics.
pos: noun
gloss: A political prisoner.
pos: noun
Synonyms: politic
Antonyms: nonpolitical
non-political
Related words: politician
politicize
politick
politico
Derived words: 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 base
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
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