|prōgrə|mad.]ik, -at], ]ēk adjective
Etymology: Greek programmat-, programma + English -ic
1. : relating to program music
as is found to be the case in all romantic music, programmatic allusions play a big part — Beatrice Maier
2. : of, resembling, or having a program
his writing is programmatic and pioneering rather than definitive — D.G.Mandelbaum
the one and only party is bound to degenerate, regardless of its programmatic intentions — Philip Rahv
• pro·gram·mat·i·cal·ly ]ə̇k(ə)lē, ]ēk-, -li\ adverb