| hedonistic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonic |
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| heuristic | (adjective) of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation | - |
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| holistic | (adjective) emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole | - |
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| humanistic | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanist |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian |
| iconoclastic | (adjective) destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions | - |
| idealistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: ideal |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| imperialistic | (adjective) of or relating to imperialism | Synonyms: imperialist |
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| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| inartistic | (adjective) lacking aesthetic sensibility | Synonyms: unartistic |
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| individualistic | (adjective) with minimally restricted freedom in commerce | Synonyms: laissez-faire |
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| (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualist |
| inelastic | (adjective) not elastic | - |
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| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| isolationistic | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationist |
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| jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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| kabbalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| lexicostatistic | (adjective) pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages | - |
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| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| logistic | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistical |
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| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| masochistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated | - |
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| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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| misogynistic | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynous |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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| monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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| moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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| mystic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of mysticism | Synonyms: mystical |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling mysticism | Synonyms: mystical |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
| narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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| nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| nativistic | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativist |
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| (adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativist |
| naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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| naturistic | (adjective) in accord with naturism | - |
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| neoclassicistic | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicist |
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| neoplastic | (adjective) of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm | - |
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| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| nominalistic | (adjective) of or relating to nominalism | - |
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| nonlinguistic | (adjective) not consisting of or related to language | - |
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| nonmechanistic | (adjective) not mechanistic | - |
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| onomastic | (adjective) of or related to onomastics | - |
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| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
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| optimistic | (adjective) expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | - |
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| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: affirmative |
| organicistic | (adjective) relating to or tending toward organicism | - |
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| orgiastic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing |
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| (adjective) used of frenzied sexual activity | - |
| overenthusiastic | (adjective) unduly enthusiastic | - |
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| pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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| paederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: pederastic |
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| pantheistic | (adjective) of or relating to pantheism | Synonyms: pantheist |
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| papistic | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| paraphrastic | (adjective) altered by paraphrasing | - |
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| particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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| periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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| pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| pietistic | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistical |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| plagiaristic | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiarized |
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| plagioclastic | (adjective) of or relating to plagioclase | - |
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| plastic | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: fictile, moldable |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: pliant |
| pleonastic | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: redundant, tautologic, tautological |
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| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| polytheistic | (adjective) worshipping or believing in more than one god | - |
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| positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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| probabilistic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on probability | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism | - |
| prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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| propagandistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandist |
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| psycholinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychology of language | - |
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| pugilistic | (adjective) of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | - |
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| qabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, sibylline |
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| rationalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism | - |
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| realistic | (adjective) aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism | - |
| (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: naturalistic |
| relativistic | (adjective) relating or subject to the special or the general theory of relativity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of relativism | - |
| revivalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterizing revivalism | - |
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| ritualistic | (adjective) of or characterized by or adhering to ritualism | - |
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| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| rustic | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: agrestic |
| (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, countryfied |
| sadistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another | - |
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| sadomasochistic | (adjective) of or relating to sadomasochism | - |
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| sarcastic | (adjective) expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | - |
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| scholastic | (adjective) of or relating to schools | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism | - |
| sciolistic | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish |
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| sensationalistic | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, yellow |
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| shamanistic | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanist |
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| simplistic | (adjective) characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity | - |
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| socialistic | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialist |
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