flag-waving

Thân thiện

A crowd engages in enthusiastic flag-waving during a national holiday parade.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Fanatically patriotic: Describes an excessively emotional, aggressive, or demonstrative display of national pride, often perceived as uncritical or intended to arouse public sentiment.

Usage

• The term is used to describe behavior, rhetoric, or displays that are overtly and aggressively nationalistic. It often carries a critical or disapproving connotation, implying that the patriotism is superficial, jingoistic, or intended for political effect rather than stemming from genuine, thoughtful national loyalty.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The politician's speech was pure flag-waving, full of emotional slogans but lacking in substantive policy.
  • Critics dismissed the parade as mere flag-waving propaganda.
  • He accused the media of engaging in flag-waving journalism during the international crisis.

Advanced Usage

• As a noun (less common): The act or an instance of such demonstrative patriotism.
  • The event was characterized by much flag-waving and nationalistic fervor.

Variants and Related Words

• Flag-waver (noun): A person who engages in or promotes flag-waving.
  • He was dismissed as a mere flag-waver by the more analytical commentators.

Synonyms

• Jingoistic: Aggressively patriotic, often favoring a warlike foreign policy.
• Chauvinistic: Showing excessive or prejudiced loyalty or support for one's own group, cause, or nation.
• Superpatriotic: Excessively patriotic.

Antonyms

• Internationalist: Concerned with or advocating for cooperation among nations.
• Cosmopolitan: Familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures; not narrow or provincial in outlook.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. fanatically patriotic

Từ đồng nghĩa

• chauvinistic
• flag-waving
• jingoistic
• nationalistic
• ultranationalistic
• superpatriotic