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say it: mah-kee-uh-VEL-ee-uhn
machiavellian is a noun and adjective meaning "a follower of Machiavelli's principles". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a follower of Machiavelli's principles
of or relating to Machiavelli or the principles of conduct he recommended
“Machiavellian thinking”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for machiavellian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.