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tribalistic

tribalistic adjective: pertaining to tribalism.

Adjective

tribalistic (comparative more tribalistic, superlative most tribalistic)

  1. Pertaining to tribalism.
    • At the time, I thought there couldn’t possibly be any similarities between what I did over there and here, but I actually did more and more start to recognize some of the same sort of tribalistic attitudes and fear based on ignorance about the other.2024 Dec 06, Case Bryant, cited in: Gail Russell Chaddock and Jingnan Peng, Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work, in The Christian Science Monitor

Forms of tribalistic

comparativemore tribalistic
superlativemost tribalistic

Origin of tribalistic

From tribal + -istic.

Words formed from tribalistic

Questions about tribalistic

What does tribalistic mean?
Tribalistic means pertaining to tribalism.
What part of speech is tribalistic?
Tribalistic is an adjective.

Words near tribalistic in the dictionary

  1. tribalises
  2. tribalising
  3. tribalism
  4. tribalisms
  5. tribalist
  6. tribalistic
  7. tribalistically
  8. tribalists
  9. tribalities
  10. tribality
  11. tribalization

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