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apolitical

apolitical adjective: having no interest or involvement in politics.

Adjective

apolitical (comparative more apolitical, superlative most apolitical)

  1. Having no interest or involvement in politics.
    • The Queen is an apolitical figure.
  2. Having no political relevance or function.
    • The PM's visit to the school was entirely apolitical.
  3. Politically neutral, unbiased, nonaligned and free from party politics.
    • My colleagues and I come to this task with open minds, we are apolitical and independent of any political party.
    • What, exactly, the criteria for this designation will be remains unclear but the ultimate aim, some analysts suspect, is to purge officers deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump – a litmus test, they warn, that’s incompatible with an apolitical military.2024 November 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “Worries rise over a Trump ‘warrior board’ to remove officers ‘unfit for leadership’”, in The Christian Science Monitor

Noun

apolitical (plural apoliticals)

  1. A person with no involvement or no interest in politics.
  2. An unbiased candidate or voter, free of a party platform.
  3. A neutral or uncommitted person.

apolitical meaning in Urdu and Bengali

apolitical in Urdu

غیر سِیاسی

apolitical in Bengali

apolitical
রাজনীতিবিমুখ rajnitibimukh

Forms of apolitical

Adjective
comparativemore apolitical
superlativemost apolitical
Noun
pluralapoliticals

Origin of apolitical

From a- + political.

Words formed from apolitical

Questions about apolitical

What does apolitical mean?
Apolitical means having no interest or involvement in politics.
What is apolitical in Urdu?
Apolitical in Urdu is غیر سِیاسی. See Apolitical meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is apolitical?
Apolitical can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near apolitical in the dictionary

  1. Apolinars
  2. apolipophorin
  3. apolipophorins
  4. apolipoprotein
  5. apolipoproteins
  6. apolitical
  7. apoliticality
  8. apolitically
  9. apoliticals
  10. apoliticism
  11. apoliticisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apolitical (page history and authors); apolitical (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); রাজনীতিবিমুখ (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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