journalistic
/ˌd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)nəˈlɪstɪk/
journalistic adjective: related to journalism or journalists.
Adjective
journalistic (comparative more journalistic, superlative most journalistic)
- Related to journalism or journalists.
- Substituting "[expletive]" for swear words in an article's text is a journalistic practice of sensibility.
- This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.2005 July 12, Jacob Weisberg, “The Anonymity Trap”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2021
journalistic meaning in Urdu, Malay and Indonesian
journalistic in Urdu
- related to journalism or journalists
- اخباری axbārī, صحافتی sahāfatī
journalistic in Malay
- related to journalism or journalists
- wartawan, kewartawanan, jurnalis, jurnalistik
journalistic in Indonesian
- related to journalism or journalists
- jurnalistik
Examples of journalistic in a sentence
- This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
- The Mexican trouble is about one fifth genuine complication and four fifths journalistic jimjam.
- We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic.
Forms of journalistic
| comparative | more journalistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most journalistic |
Origin of journalistic
From journal + -istic (“adjective”). Also parsed directly as journalist + -ic (“adjective”), also used in sense of related journalism (having to do with journalism).
Words formed from journalistic
Words that rhyme with journalistic
- artistic
- autistic
- characteristic
- atavistic
- ballistic
- heuristic
- linguistic
- pessimistic
- realistic
- cystic
- futuristic
- histic
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- holistic
- hypocoristic
- mystic
- optimistic
- activistic
- allistic
- altruistic
- cannibalistic
- criminalistic
- economistic
- epiphenomenalistic
- fistic
- heteroantagonistic
- hubristic
- hybristic
- infinitistic
- isoantagonistic
- jingoistic
- librettistic
- malistic
- mistic
- navalistic
- paralinguistic
- pistic
- retrofuturistic
- spiritistic
- supercalifragilistic
- surrealistic
- unartistic
Questions about journalistic
- What does journalistic mean?
- Journalistic means related to journalism or journalists.
- What is journalistic in Urdu?
- Journalistic in Urdu is اخباری (axbārī), صحافتی (sahāfatī). See Journalistic meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is journalistic?
- Journalistic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce journalistic?
- Journalistic is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)nəˈlɪstɪk/.
Words near journalistic in the dictionary
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