realpolitik

1. 1.

   politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations

   Synonymspractical politics

   Broaderpolitics

Other forms of realpolitik

plural

realpolitiks·

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.

Questions about realpolitik

What does realpolitik mean?

realpolitik means "politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations".

How many syllables are in realpolitik?

realpolitik has 4 syllables: real-po-li-tik. The stress falls on "tik". In IPA it is /ˌɹilˌpɔlɪˈtɪk/.

What is another word for realpolitik?

Close synonyms include practical politics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is realpolitik a common word?

realpolitik is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with realpolitik?

6 words rhyme with realpolitik. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.