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antifascist

antifascist

1 4.4
Opposed to fascism and fascist ideas
  • adjective
  • /ˌæntiˈfæʃɪst/
translation icon : antifascista
  • You all know that you are antifascist.
  • antifascist propaganda

Examples

  • He found himself among those educated Slovenians of Trieste who organized antifascist resistance.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • And yet, in France, throughout the 1930s, many antifascist thinkers of the Left bandied exactly the same sort of slogan.

    Academic text (1992)
  • One should also remember that his appeal to the values of authority and discipline was, once again, part of an explicitly antifascist strategy.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Eventually, its members established Il Nuovo Mondo (The New World), which for a time was the only antifascist daily newspaper in the world.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The Galerie de la Botie exhibition of antifascist art and propaganda is curated by members of its staff.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The AFANA also sponsored antifascist demonstrations all around the country. Speakers would hold meetings free of charge for any local union or organization that requested them.

    Academic text (1997)
  • 26 27 The British, French, and German Communist parties, all originally war supporters, abandoned their antifascist crusades, demanded peace, and denounced Allied governments.

    Blog text (31)
  • With their horror vacui clutter and severe antifascist imagery, the Year of Peril paintings were profoundly unpopular.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Gradually, the antifascist principle, the G.D.R.’s sole threadbare claim to legitimacy, lost its credibility as well: to call the Berlin Wall the great antifascist wall was too grim an absurdity.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Many artists during the 20th century identified as antifascist and used their work to promote democratic values.

Antonyms

74 7.7

A person who wants a strict, controlling government and who may use force against people who disagree

Compounds

A person who opposes fascism before most people or the government think it is dangerous

How Anti-Fascist

antifascist
1 4.4
opposed
1 3.5

Surface Forms

antifascist positive

Morphology

antifascist = fascist (transparent) = anti + fascist

The meaning is a direct and regular combination of the negative/oppositional prefix anti- with fascist.

Etymology

Antifascist combines anti- 'against' and fascist, from fascism which is a political movement where one leader has very strong control. Like in antibiotic or antivirus, anti- means 'against', so antifascist means 'against' fascist ideas or policies.