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sensationalistic

sensationalistic adjective: sensationalist.

Adjective

sensationalistic (comparative more sensationalistic, superlative most sensationalistic)

  1. sensationalist

Forms of sensationalistic

comparativemore sensationalistic
superlativemost sensationalistic

Origin of sensationalistic

From sensational + -istic or sensationalist + -ic.

Words formed from sensationalistic

Questions about sensationalistic

What does sensationalistic mean?
Sensationalistic means sensationalist.
What part of speech is sensationalistic?
Sensationalistic is an adjective.

Words near sensationalistic in the dictionary

  1. sensationalises
  2. sensationalising
  3. sensationalism
  4. sensationalisms
  5. sensationalist
  6. sensationalistic
  7. sensationalistically
  8. sensationalists
  9. sensationalities
  10. sensationality
  11. sensationalizable

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