paternalistic

Meaning of paternalistic

adjective
  1. The quality of being paternal, i.e. like a father, e.g. characterized by behaving in benevolent and yet intrusive manner towards underlings
  2. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of or practicing paternalism

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  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of paternalistic

pa-ter-nal-is-tic

  • It consists of 5 syllables and 13 chars.
  • paternalistic is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Anagrams of paternalistic

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Words that rhyme with paternalistic

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