micropolitical

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ political.

Adjective

micropolitical (comparative more micropolitical, superlative most micropolitical)

1. Of or pertaining to micropolitics.

   Antonym: macropolitical

   Hypernym: microlevel

   Coordinate terms: microeconomic, microsocial

   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 42:

     Blacks may have invented and used the term poor white trash as an act of symbolic violence and micropolitical protest, but it was literate, middle-class and elite whites who invested its meaning with social power, granting it the powers of social stigma and prejudice and enforcing the discriminatory effects with regard to labor.

Derived terms

• micropolitically