The Collaborative International Dictionary
imperialistic \im*pe`ri*al*is"tic\, n. Of, pertaining to, or advocating imperialism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, from imperial + -istic. Also see imperialist.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to imperialism or imperialists; favoring imperialism.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to imperialism; "imperialistic wars" [syn: imperialist]
Usage examples of "imperialistic".
During these years Gombos paid a visit to Ankara and Warsaw with the aim to create with the help of Turkey and Poland a line of defense against the imperialistic threatening from the West and from the East.
And, indeed, the majority of individuals in rational societies still settle in somewhere around the mythic-rational, using all the formidable powers of rationality to prop up a particular, divisive, imperialistic mythology and an aggressively fundamentalistic program of systematic intolerance.
Even the military and civilian autocrats of the 1930s and 1940s carried out their imperialistic and militaristic policies under renovationist and revolutionary slogans.
This reductionistic thrust of Marxism, because it could find no support in the real Kosmos, had to be converted into a religious mythology, and thus had to press its vision in an imperialistic fashion.