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Political definition

Political is an adjective meaning "involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians." It has 3 meanings, listed below with example sentences.

Part of speech
adjective
Syllables
4
Letters
9
How common
Everyday word

Political as an adjective

  1. involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians

    "calling a meeting is a political act in itself"

  2. of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power

    "political opinions"

  3. of or relating to the profession of governing

    "political career"

Synonyms and antonyms

Opposite: nonpolitical.

All synonyms of political, sense by sense

How to say political

Political has 4 syllables and rhymes with diacritical. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with political

POLITICAL in word games

Scrabble
13
Words With Friends
17
Anagrams
0

Is POLITICAL a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check POLITICAL in the word checker, or unscramble POLITICAL to see the shorter words in its letters.

Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.