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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality;
- Example: "democratic government"
- Example: "a democratic country"
- Example: "a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"- George du Maurier

2. belong to or relating to the Democratic Party;
- Example: "Democratic senator"

3. representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large;
- Example: "democratic art forms"
- Example: "a democratic or popular movement"
- Example: "popular thought"
- Example: "popular science"
- Example: "popular fiction"
[syn: democratic, popular]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Democratic \Dem`o*crat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. d['e]mocratique.]
   1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or
      constructed upon the principle of government by the
      people.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. belonging to or relating to the Democratic party, the
      political party so called.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
      [1913 Webster]

   The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief
      political parties in the United States.

   Note: Presidents of the United States who belonged to the
         Democratic party in the twentieth century were Woodrow
         Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F.
         Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill
         Clinton.
         [1913 Webster +PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

democratic
    adj 1: characterized by or advocating or based upon the
           principles of democracy or social equality; "democratic
           government"; "a democratic country"; "a democratic scorn
           for bloated dukes and lords"- George du Maurier [ant:
           undemocratic]
    2: belong to or relating to the Democratic Party; "Democratic
       senator"
    3: representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of
       the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or
       popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science";
       "popular fiction" [syn: democratic, popular]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "democratic":
   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