anticommunist
- noun
- /ˌæn.tiˈkɒm.jʊ.nɪst/
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anticomunista
- Richard Nixon had made his reputation as an anticommunist with his entry into politics in the 1940s, and he had remained a hard-lining anticommunist throughout his political career.
Examples
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Instead of emerging from the Round Table talks as the party that had successfully navigated the nation to the shores of democracy and was now prepared to lead it into the future, the reformers were forced into a defensive posture, as the opposition parties competed among themselves for the title of most authentic anticommunist.
Academic text (1991) -
Judy Kutulas chided such "extreme anticommunists" as Sidney Hook, who kept badgering "progressives" like Corliss Lamont about the political positions they had taken in the 1930s.
Academic text (1996) -
Somehow that made them anticommunists; I'm not sure why.
Blog text (33) -
What I just wrote seems to contradict what the great anticommunist dissidents said.
Academic text (2003) -
An anticommunist in the 1980s, he worked closely with the remnants of the Communist Party after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Academic text (2015) -
He is also a bit of a moralist, or at least a moral constitutionalist, and he was a resolute anticommunist.
Academic text (2000) -
That anger came to its peak in early 1980 when several groups of former Vietnamese army officers created movements of militant anticommunists with the purpose of regaining the government in Vietnam by force.
Academic text (1999) -
The end of ideology means the collapse of ideology's easy dichotomies, of the communists and the anticommunists, Marxists and anti-Marxists.
Academic text (1990) -
Anticommunists and communists, leftists, centrists, and rightists all need the specter of communism.
Academic text (1990) -
As an anticommunist, she passionately organized rallies to promote freedom and democracy.
Synonyms
A person who does not support or belong to the communist party
Antonyms
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3.5
A person who supports the idea that people share things and work for the community
How Opposed
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3.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anticommunist joins anti- 'against' and commun- 'common', like in community. A helpful way to remember is that an anticommunist is a person 'against' the idea of sharing everything, so the word means someone who opposes communism.