Word Meanings - POLITICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. "A political government." Evelyn. 2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state

Additional info about word: POLITICAL

1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. "A political government." Evelyn. 2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state of Europe." Paley. 3. Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs. 4. Politic; wise; also, artful. Sterne. Political economy, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POLITICAL)

• Civil
• Well-mannered
• political
• courteous
• well-bred
• complaisant
• affable
• urbane
• polite
• obliging
• accommodating
• respectful
• Temporal
• Secular
• worldly
• civil
• transient
• fleeting
• laical
• terrestrial
• sublunary
• mundane

Related words: (words related to POLITICAL)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• MUNDANE
  Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor. (more info) toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds
• LAICALITY
  The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• FLEET
  To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim,
• LAICALLY
  As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
• SECULARIZATION
  The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
• FLEETEN
  Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.
• SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
  Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• ULTRAMUNDANE
  Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• UNSECULARIZE
  To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.