JOURNALISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does journalistic mean? 

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

1. of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOURNALISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

journalistic writing

Pertainym:

journalism (newspapers and magazines collectively)

Derivation:

journalism (the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media)

journalism (newspapers and magazines collectively)

 Context examples 

"It's just the very biggest thing that I ever heard of!" said I, though it was my journalistic rather than my scientific enthusiasm that was roused.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A great deal of my journalistic work is done at night, and I often write until the early morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall not dare to publish these articles unless I can bring back my proofs to England, or I shall be hailed as the journalistic Munchausen of all time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)