political

English

Alternative forms

• politicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin politicus, ultimately from Greco-Latin polis '(city) state'

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pəˈlɪtɪkəl/, SAMPA: /p@"lItIk@l/

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• Hyphenation: po‧lit‧i‧cal

Noun

political (plural politicals)

1. a publication centred around politics

Adjective

political (comparative more political, superlative most political)

1. concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing

   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

2. concerning a polity or its administrative components

   Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers

3. (pejorative) motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation
4. of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority

Synonyms

• politic

Antonyms

• nonpolitical

Derived terms

• politicality
• politically
• political agent
• political animal
• political asylum
• political economy
• politicalness
• political party
• political prisoner
• party political
• politically correct
• sociopolitical

Related terms

• politician
• politicize
• politick
• politico

Translations

concerning or relating to politics

Afrikaans: politieke (af) Albanian: politik (sq) m., politike (sq) f. Arabic: سياسي (ar) (siyaasiy) Armenian: քաղաքական (hy) (kʿałakʿakan) Azeri: siyasi (az) Catalan: polític (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 政治 (zh) (zhèngzhì) Czech: politický (cs) m. Dutch: politiek (nl) Esperanto: politika (eo) Finnish: poliittinen (fi) French: politique (fr) German: politisch (de) Greek: πολιτικός (el) (politikós)

Hindi: राजनीतिक (hi) (rājanītika) Icelandic: pólitísk (is) m., pólitíska (is) f. Interlingua: politic (ia) Japanese: 政治的 (ja) (せいじてき, seijiteki) Korean: 정치 (ko) (jeongchi), 정치적 (ko) (jeongchijeog) Polish: polityczny (pl) m. Portuguese: político (pt) m., política (pt) f. Romanian: politic (ro) m. and n., politică (ro) f. Russian: политический (ru) (politíčeskij) Spanish: político (es) Swedish: politisk (sv) Tagalog: pampolitika (tl) Turkish: siyasi (tr) Vietnamese: chính trị (vi)

motivated by political calculation

Catalan: polític (ca) Dutch: partijpolitiek, politiek Finnish: poliittinen (fi) Greek: πολιτικός (el) (politikós)

Japanese: 政治的 (ja) (せいじてき, seijiteki) Romanian: politic (ro) m. and n. Russian: политический (ru) (politíčeskij)

of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority

Dutch: politiek (nl) Finnish: poliittinen (fi) Greek: πολιτικός (el) (politikós), πολιτειακός (el) (politeiakós), δημόσιος (el) (dimósios)

Japanese: 政治的 (ja) (せいじてき, seijiteki) Romanian: politic (ro) m. and n. Russian: политический (ru) (politíčeskij)

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French: politique German: politisch Hebrew: פוליטי (politi) Ido: politikala Interlingua: politic

Portuguese: político m., política f. Sicilian: pulìticu Spanish: político m. Telugu: రాజకీయ (raajakeeya)

Statistics

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