Adjective: dualistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dualistic |
| Superlative | most dualistic |
Sample Sentences
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A second difficulty that has distanced Mary from the communion of saints […] is the strategy that casts her as the feminine ideal and thus sets her up as the model for all other women. Those who take this approach invariably use a dualistic anthropology that divides male and female into watertight compartments, elevating sex to an ontological principle that results in virtually two types of human nature. [2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:]
Adjectives inflected like dualistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English dual
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
8. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
9. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
10. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
11. Latin -istader.
12. Old French -istebor.
13. Middle English -ist
14. English -ist
15. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
16. Proto-Italic *-ikos
17. Latin -icuslbor.
18. Old French -iquebor.
19. Middle English -ik
20. English -ic
21. English -istic
22. English dualistic
23. From dual + -istic.
Verbs referencing "dualistic"
Finnish Adjectives
dualistinen.