What does patriotic mean?
Word: Patriotic
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Patriotic means having or showing great love for your country and a wish to support it.
Synonyms: loyal
Antonyms: unpatriotic
How do you spell patriotic?
Syllables: pa - tri - ot - ic
Tricky part: After the r comes i and then o: pat-ri-ot. Students who swap or blur those vowels write patreotic or patriatic.
Watch out for: patreotic, patriatic
Memory tip: Say the middle as ree-ot and write it as r-i-o, in that order, the same order as in chariot.
Patriotic in a sentence
Example 1: Rohan felt patriotic when his country won the cricket final.
Example 2: Our street was decorated in saffron, white and green for a patriotic parade.
Example 3: A patriotic citizen helps to keep the country's parks and rivers clean.
Fun Fact
Many countries have a national anthem, a patriotic song that is sung at big sports events and on important national days.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
patriot____
a) ik
b) ick
c) ic
d) ique
Show answer
c) ic. Patriot takes ic, the same ending as in heroic.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
rcptoiiat
a) patriotic
b) practice
c) apricot
d) tropical
Show answer
a) patriotic. Apricot is too short, tropical needs an l, and practice needs an e.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) freedum
b) patriotic
c) anthum
d) sacrifise
Show answer
b) patriotic. Sacrifice ends in ice, anthem ends in em and freedom ends in dom.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our class sang patriotic songs and waved little flags at the Republic Day assembely.
a) assembely
b) flags
c) patriotic
d) Republic
Show answer
a) assembely. Assembly has no e between the b and the l.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. On Republic Day, many people show patriotic feelings by ____.
a) hoisting the national flag
b) switching off their phones
c) eating cold food
d) painting their nails
Show answer
a) hoisting the national flag
2. A patriotic person feels great ____ for their country.
a) love and loyalty
b) fear and worry
c) envy and boredom
d) anger and dislike
Show answer
a) love and loyalty
