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Serving as a token of support, compliance, etc., but lacking substance; exhibiting or relating to tokenism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The government has taken nothing more than tokenistic actions on behalf of people with disabilities.
- The company’s use of ads depicting gay couples appears to be merely tokenistic, particularly in view of the support it has given to anti-LGBT politicians.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Constituting a token or symbol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1908, T. W. Pearce, “The Ancient Faiths of the Chinese” in Arnold Wright (ed.), Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China, London: Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, p. 340, Animals are tokens. Among tokenistic animals the dragon holds the first place. The dragon of the sky is indissolubly linked in the minds of the masses with the emperor who sits on the dragon throne, and who, after death, ascends upon the dragon “to be a guest on high.”
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: symbolic
Antonyms: none provided
