SOCIALISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does socialistic mean? 

• SOCIALISTIC (adjective)
  The adjective SOCIALISTIC has 1 sense:

1. advocating or following the socialist principles

  Familiarity information: SOCIALISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIALISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advocating or following the socialist principles

Synonyms:

socialist; socialistic

Context example:

socialistic government

Similar:

collective (set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government)

collectivised; collectivist; collectivistic; collectivized; state-controlled (subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively)

Also:

left (of or belonging to the political or intellectual left)

Antonym:

capitalistic (favoring or practicing capitalism)

Derivation:

socialism (a political theory advocating state ownership of industry)

socialism (an economic system based on state ownership of capital)

 Context examples 

It's on record, your position on interstate commerce regulation, on regulation of the railway trust and Standard Oil, on the conservation of the forests, on a thousand and one restrictive measures that are nothing else than socialistic.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That gentleman was depicted as an intelligent, dignified businessman who had no patience with his brother-in-law's socialistic views, and no patience with the brother-in-law, either, whom he was quoted as characterizing as a lazy good-for-nothing who wouldn't take a job when it was offered to him and who would go to jail yet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)