Communistic

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of communism.

    "Act to declare the Communist Party of South Africa to be an unlawful organization; to make provision for declaring other organizations promoting communistic activities to be unlawful and for prohibiting certain periodical or other publications; to prohibit certain communistic activities; and to make provision for other incidental matters."

  2. 2
    Living or having their nests in common.

    "communistic birds"

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or marked by communism wordnet

Example

More examples

"Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?"

Etymology

From communist + -ic.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.