Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tribalistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English

Syllables: trib-al-is-tic
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to tribalism.

Example Sentences

"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 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."

Etymology

From tribal + -istic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tribal

Inflected Forms

more tribalistic (comparative) most tribalistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

tribalistically

Questions

What does tribalistic mean?: Pertaining to tribalism.
Where does tribalistic come from?: From tribal + -istic.

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