tribalistic

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adjective

Pertaining to tribalism.

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Meanings

adjectivetribalistic (comparative more tribalistic, superlative most tribalistic)

comparative more tribalistic · superlative most tribalistic

  1. Pertaining to tribalism.
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    2024 Dec 06, Case Bryant, cited in: Gail Russell Chaddock and Jingnan Peng, Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work, in The Christian Science Monitor At the time, I thought there couldn’t possibly be any similarities between what I did over there and here, but I actually did more and more start to recognize some of the same sort of tribalistic attitudes and fear based on ignorance about the other.

Origin

From tribal + -istic.

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APA

tribalistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tribalistic

MLA

“tribalistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tribalistic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tribalistic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tribalistic.

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