socialisticadj.
/ˌsəʊʃəˈlɪstɪk/, /ˌsəʊʃlˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌsoʊʃəˈlɪstɪk/ 1.
a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of socialism or socialists.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adjective]
socialist1824
socialist1839
socialistic1848
1848 Times 21 Apr. 4/5 It is barely five years ago that he was keenly, though benevolently, scrutinizing the Socialistic fallacies of earlier missionaries.
1863 H. Spencer Ess. 2nd Ser. 238 And similarly with countless socialistic schemes.
1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. i. 104 Various socialistic experiments were made by Robert Owen.
1919 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Consequences xii. 132 You may say that's just the contrary of my old socialistic ideas.
1972 Daily Dispatch 24 Jan. 10 South Africa is largely a socialist country with several socialistic manifestations.
2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand lxxxi. 432 The breadth of his socialistic agenda will..enrage the American status quo.
b. Governed or organized in accordance with the principles of socialism.
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1858 Sat. Rev. 6 639 An elaborate system of socialistic order.
1882 J. A. Froude in Fortn. Rev. 229 744 Socialistic equality is pretty and becoming in Utopia.
1894 Forum Mar. 101 In any socialistic state there will be one set of positions which will offer chances of wealth.
1965 N. Frye in C. F. Klinck et al. Lit. Hist. Canada 833 They [sc. radical workers] believed that ‘capitalist individualism’ had been all but defeated by natural laws that would replace it with a socialistic communal order.
2007 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Feb. b5 Their inefficient socialistic health-care system is such an unbelievable quagmire that people must wait months for treatment.
2. Of a person, political movement, party, etc.: that advocates or favours socialism.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adjective] > favouring
socialistic1850
1850 Ladies' Repository Feb. 59/2 He thought he was acting in the spirit of this resolve, when, in company with others, he entered a certain half religious, half socialistic association that was established at Berea about thirteen years ago.
1864 Athenæum 12 Mar. 366/2 Fernando Garrido..celebrated as a socialistic republican.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. 233 Chevalier,..who from having been a member of the socialistic sect..had come to be a practical politician.
1910 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xi. 284 Our socialistic peace-advocates all believe absolutely in this world's values.
1947 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 91 246/1 Broadly he [sc. J. Percy Moore] might be labeled as a liberal with socialistic leanings or a socialistic democrat.
2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Mar. 166/1 Carpet bombing might be the best thing for this socialistic, soft-on-terrorism, politically correct snowland.
Derivatives
sociaˈlistically adv.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adverb]
socialistically1878
1878 Times 12 Oct. 5/3 Prince Bismarck was Socialistically inclined.
1955 E. O. Reischauer Wanted: Asian Policy iii. xii. 324 An American can hardly speak intelligibly and effectively to the socialistically oriented Burmese..without becoming correspondingly unintelligible to many of his compatriots at home.
2008 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 11 Jan. Micro-socialism in a macro-market economy might just transform capitalism to make it socialistically humane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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