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philanthropistic

philanthropistic adjective: philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).

Adjective

philanthropistic (comparative more philanthropistic, superlative most philanthropistic)

  1. (dated, rare) philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).
    • Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

Forms of philanthropistic

comparativemore philanthropistic
superlativemost philanthropistic

Origin of philanthropistic

From philanthropist + -ic.

Questions about philanthropistic

What does philanthropistic mean?
Philanthropistic means philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).
What part of speech is philanthropistic?
Philanthropistic is an adjective.

Words near philanthropistic in the dictionary

  1. philanthropised
  2. philanthropises
  3. philanthropising
  4. philanthropism
  5. philanthropist
  6. philanthropistic
  7. philanthropists
  8. philanthropize
  9. philanthropized
  10. philanthropizes
  11. philanthropizing

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