Dictionary 1. (a.) Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.2. (a.) Relating to a political party so called. 3. (a.) Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. Thesaurus absolute aristocratic authoritarian autocratic autonomous bureaucratic civic civil classless constitutional despotic dictatorial egalitarian fascist federal federalist federalistic governmental gubernatorial heteronomous libertarian matriarchal matriarchic monarchal monarchial monarchic monocratic official oligarchal oligarchic parliamentarian parliamentary patriarchal patriarchic pluralistic political popular representative republican self-governing theocratic totalitarian |