whiggish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
adj
Characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see Whig history.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of whiggish.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: presentist"
- "Finally, whiggish narratives, strewn with heroes, only hinder understanding of how the world works."
- "Abilafia’s article is a classic example of an old-fashioned “Whiggish” narrative. It claims a uniquely moderate and progressive advance toward the development of British institutions, traced continuously from Magna Carta and isolated from the rages and radicalism of the Continent."
- "Because this whiggish view depends on the expectation of progress, liberal politicians are more suspectible to it than their conservative brethren."
- "Of course, the reason we know all this—the reason the episode keeps turning up in Whiggish histories of technology—is that Plato wrote it down."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Whig Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English whiggish From Whig + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more whiggish (comparative)
most whiggish (superlative)