paternalistic
Meaning of paternalistic
adjective
- The quality of being paternal, i.e. like a father, e.g. characterized by behaving in benevolent and yet intrusive manner towards underlings
- Of, pertaining to, characteristic of or practicing paternalism
Information about paternalistic
- 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
Words that rhyme with paternalistic
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