-istic

characterized by

Usage

  • heuristic

    A heuristic method of teaching encourages learning based on students' discovering and experiencing things for themselves.

  • altruistic

    If your behavior or manner is altruistic, you show you care more about other people and their interests than you care about yourself.

  • anachronistic

    chronologically misplaced

  • antagonistic

    indicating opposition or resistance

  • egoistic

    limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

  • fatalistic

    of or relating to fatalism

  • feudalistic

    of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism

  • futuristic

    of or relating to futurism

  • humanistic

    of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion

  • idealistic

    of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

  • imperialistic

    of or relating to imperialism

  • jingoistic

    fanatically patriotic

  • legalistic

    of or relating to things legal

  • logistic

    of or relating to logistics

  • monotheistic

    believing that there is only one god

  • moralistic

    narrowly and conventionally moral

  • naturalistic

    representing what is real

  • optimistic

    expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds

  • pacifistic

    opposed to war

  • polytheistic

    worshipping or believing in more than one god

  • realistic

    aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are

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