Definition of Ideological

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation.

Partainyms: Ideology
Derivative terms: Ideology

2. Adjective. Concerned with or suggestive of ideas. "The drama's symbolism was very ideological"
Exact synonyms: Ideologic
Similar to: Abstract
Derivative terms: Ideology, Ideology

Definition of Ideological

1. a. Of or pertaining to ideology.

Definition of Ideological

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an ideology. ¹

2. Adjective. Based on an ideology or misleading studies or statistics, especially based on the media or propaganda. Not based on scientific evidence or reality. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ideological

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Ideological

1. Of or pertaining to ideology. Origin: Cf. F. Ideologique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideological

ideograms
ideograph
ideographic
ideographic comma
ideographic space
ideographical
ideographically
ideographics
ideographies
ideographs
ideography
ideokinetic
ideokinetic apraxia
ideolog
ideologic
ideological (current term)
ideological barrier
ideologically
ideologies
ideologise
ideologised
ideologises
ideologising
ideologist
ideologists
ideologize
ideologized
ideologizes
ideologizing
ideologue

Literary usage of Ideological

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. NATO's Future: Toward a New Transatlantic Bargain by Stanley R. Sloan (1995)
"A MIXED ideological HERITAGE Americans and Europeans are united in their desire ... Common ideological objectives are, in fact, explicitly expressed in the ..."

2. Comte, Mill, and Spencer: An Outline of Philosophy by John ( Watson (1895)
"In other words, it is maintained that the theory of development, as enunciated by Darwin, is incompatible with a ideological explanation of the world, ..."

3. Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society by Lester Frank Ward (1906)
"The proper name for the opposite doctrine, corresponding in form to this, is the ideological interpretation of history. These two views, when thought of ..."

4. Darwinism and the Problems of Life: A Study of Familiar Animal Life by Konrad Guenther, Joseph McCabe (1906)
"Mechanical and ideological causes. There is no end in the development of animals. ... Purification of the theory of selection from ideological elements. ..."

5. Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate by Arthur James Todd (1918)
"But some of Marx's followers, for example, Bernstein, either tacitly or openly recognize ideological forces in social evolution. ..."

6. The Origin of Ideas by Antonio Rosmini (1883)
"The Kantian solution of the ideological problem. 361. ... As we have seen, Kant stated the ideological problem thus: 'How are synthetical a priori judgments ..."

7. The Popular Science MonthlyScienc (1893)
"ideological etymology. Stephen Pearl Andrews, 22 : 123. Life and growth of L. W: D. Whitney, 1: 368. Modern L. Association of America. ..."

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