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machiavellistisch

German, adjective/maki̯avɛˈlɪstɪʃ/

machiavellistisch is a German adjective meaning “Machiavellian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “dem Machtinteresse den Vorrang gegenüber der Moral gebend”.

What does machiavellistisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Machiavellian

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. dem Machtinteresse den Vorrang gegenüber der Moral gebend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of machiavellistisch

  • machiavellistischer masculine nominative singular
  • am machiavellistischsten superlative
  • machiavellistische feminine nominative singular
  • machiavellistisches neuter nominative singular
  • machiavellistischen genitive masculine singular
  • machiavellistischem dative masculine singular
  • der machiavellistische definite includes-article masculine
  • die machiavellistische definite feminine includes-article
  • das machiavellistische definite includes-article neuter
  • die machiavellistischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des machiavellistischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der machiavellistischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem machiavellistischen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce machiavellistisch?

  • /maki̯avɛˈlɪstɪʃ/
  • [maki̯avɛˈlɪstɪʃ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to machiavellistisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is machiavellistisch in German?

machiavellistisch appears about once in every 85 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).