-istic

Usage

• heuristic

  A heuristic method of teaching encourages learning based on students' discovering and experiencing things for themselves.

• altruistic

  If your behavior or manner is altruistic, you show you care more about other people and their interests than you care about yourself.

• anachronistic

  chronologically misplaced

• antagonistic

  indicating opposition or resistance

• egoistic

  limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

• fatalistic

  of or relating to fatalism

• feudalistic

  of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism

• futuristic

  of or relating to futurism

• humanistic

  of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion

• idealistic

  of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

• imperialistic

  of or relating to imperialism

• jingoistic

  fanatically patriotic

• legalistic

  of or relating to things legal

• logistic

  of or relating to logistics

• monotheistic

  believing that there is only one god

• moralistic

  narrowly and conventionally moral

• naturalistic

  representing what is real

• optimistic

  expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds

• pacifistic

  opposed to war

• polytheistic

  worshipping or believing in more than one god

• realistic

  aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are