patriotic

[pey-tree-ot-ik, pa-]

adjective

1. of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.

2. expressing or inspired by patriotism.

   a patriotic ode.

Other Word Forms

• patriotically adverb
• antipatriotic adjective
• antipatriotically adverb
• hyperpatriotic adjective
• hyperpatriotically adverb
• nonpatriotic adjective
• nonpatriotically adverb
• overpatriotic adjective
• overpatriotically adverb
• propatriotic adjective
• pseudopatriotic adjective
• pseudopatriotically adverb
• quasi-patriotic adjective
• quasi-patriotically adverb
• semipatriotic adjective
• semipatriotically adverb
• ultrapatriotic adjective
• ultrapatrioticly adverb
• unpatriotic adjective
• unpatriotically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of patriotic¹

1645–55; < Late Latin patriōticus < Greek patriōtikós. See patriot, -ic

Example Sentences

“These patriotic men and women never missed a beat and kept the flying public safe throughout the shutdown,” Duffy said.

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Parochialism and “group values” are bad, “universal” ones are good, but anyone deemed insufficiently patriotic gets the boot?

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I am a patriotic American and a proud Jew.

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Western missionaries were expelled; churches, mosques and temples were brought under state control or shuttered; and clergy who refused to join government-sanctioned “patriotic associations” were imprisoned.

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When the current president of the United States is spearheading a whitewashing of American history with the goal of establishing a “patriotic” version, the series’ arrival seems especially timely.

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