programmatic

[ proh-gruh-mat-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling program music.
of, having, advocating, resembling, or following a plan, policy, or program:
programmatic art.
of, relating to, or employing a computer program:
The coders found a programmatic solution to automate data processing.

programmatic

/ ˌprəʊɡrəˈmætɪk /

1895–1900; < Greek programmat- (stem of prógramma ) program + -ic

The majority of the rest of the book is devoted to the programmatic agenda of the members of the Federalist Society.

State of the Union addresses tend to be too long and too programmatic.

Every president seems to get bogged down in policy overload and programmatic detail.

The "Pastoral" symphony is by no means the first piece of deliberately, confessedly programmatic music.

Although he strove continually for classic form, his works nevertheless reveal their programmatic origin.

These men often talk as glibly as if they were essayists, they often seem to be mere vehicles for programmatic manifestoes.

Musical modernity and the programmatic form had come to seem inseparable.

Like “Zarathustra,” it would be effective as music without a line of programmatic explanation.

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