apolitical

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ political.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

apolitical (comparative more apolitical, superlative most apolitical)

1. Having no interest or involvement in politics.

   The Queen is an apolitical figure.

2. Having no political relevance or function.

   The PM's visit to the school was entirely apolitical.

3. Politically neutral, unbiased, non-aligned, free from party politics

   My colleagues and I come to this task with open minds, we are apolitical and independent of any political party.

   • 2024 November 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “Worries rise over a Trump ‘warrior board’ to remove officers ‘unfit for leadership’”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     What, exactly, the criteria for this designation will be remains unclear but the ultimate aim, some analysts suspect, is to purge officers deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump – a litmus test, they warn, that’s incompatible with an apolitical military.

Derived terms

• apoliticality

 

Translations

Having no interest or involvement in politics

• Catalan: apolític
• Czech: apolitický m
• Finnish: epäpoliittinen (fi)
• French: apolitique (fr)
• German: unpolitisch (de)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} neamhpholaitiúil
• Kazakh: бейсаясат (beisaäsat)
• Polish: apolityczny (pl)
• Portuguese: apolítico (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аполѝтичан, аполѝтичкӣ

  Latin: apolìtičan (sh), apolìtičkī (sh)

• Swedish: opolitisk (sv), apolitisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: аполіти́чний (uk) (apolitýčnyj)
• Welsh: anwleidyddol, amholiticaidd

Having no political relevance or function

• Catalan: apolític
• Czech: nepolitický m
• Finnish: epäpoliittinen (fi)
• French: apolitique (fr)
• German: unpolitisch (de)
• Irish: neamhpholaitiúil
• Kazakh: бейсаясат (beisaäsat)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аполѝтичан, аполѝтичкӣ

  Latin: apolìtičan (sh), apolìtičkī (sh)

• Swedish: opolitisk (sv)
• Welsh: anwleidyddol, amholiticaidd

Noun

apolitical (plural apoliticals)

1. A person with no involvement or no interest in politics.
2. An unbiased candidate or voter, free of a party platform.
3. A neutral or uncommitted person.