tokenistic adjective2 •Serving as a token of support, compliance, etc., but lacking substance; exhibiting or relating to tokenism.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. •(no longer used) Constituting a token or symbol. formsmore tokenistic · most tokenistic