BUREAUCRATIC

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy

Example:

a bureaucratic nightmare

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

bureaucracy (nonelective government officials)

bureaucrat (an official of a bureaucracy)

Derivation:

bureaucracy (any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape)

bureaucracy (a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials)

bureaucracy (nonelective government officials)