Whiggish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Whiggish is an adjective meaning (politics, historical) Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
Meaning
(politics, historical) Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
More Meanings
- (history, often capitalized) Characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see Whig history.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: presentist
Finally, whiggish narratives, strewn with heroes, only hinder understanding of how the world works.
Of course, the reason we know all this—the reason the episode keeps turning up in Whiggish histories of technology—is that Plato wrote it down.
Because this whiggish view depends on the expectation of progress, liberal politicians are more suspectible to it than their conservative brethren.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wiggish, whippety, whingy, wigglesome, whippy, whistlike.
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