ideological
- adjective
- /ˌaɪdiəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Her book discusses the ideological foundations of contemporary political movements.
- ideological shift
- ideological differences
- political and ideological
That was a very narrow ideological view of empire.
- That was a very narrow ideological view of empire.
- And Americans for ideological reasons said no way.
- And that's not due to some ideological objection.
- Is campuses are the point of ideological indoctrination in America?
- Biden, to my mind, is not a person of deep ideological or passionate conviction.
- A threat to DEI policies on ideological grounds, on material interest grounds.
- And so the ideological takeover has become complete.
- McCarthy, utterly non ideological, not much of A belief system at all.
- The Contras, few and far between, did it for ideological reasons.
- But it was not in a narrow sense, political or ideological as the Russian example was.
- I think what we hadn't perhaps realized is just how ideological Reeves and Starmer are.
- So it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's, as you pointed out, it's an ideological crusade.
- There's really big ideological loading of this painting.
- What's it called Like a some kind of ideological bias test that people get asked.
Examples
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The debate revealed the strong ideological differences between the two candidates in the election.
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They formed an alliance based on shared ideological beliefs about social justice.
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And Americans for ideological reasons said no way.
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But its role is not limited to broad ideological influence.
Academic text (2011) -
And a lot of it is just the ideological makeup of their base.
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Now, talking about politics, it is clear that there is an ideological struggle in Latin America.
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That was a very narrow ideological view of empire.
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And maybe, coming from the opposite side of the ideological divide, the idea would catch on.
Fiction book (2002) -
Our task is to deny them the ideological space in which they thrive.
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Biden, to my mind, is not a person of deep ideological or passionate conviction.
Antonyms
Compounds
An obstacle to talking and working together because people have different beliefs or values
How Ideological
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ideological comes from the simple word idea 'idea' and the part -logical, as in logical, 'about thinking or reason'. So ideological means 'about a set of ideas' that guide beliefs or actions, which is why we use it for political or economic beliefs.