fascist
- noun
- /ˈfæʃɪst/
- And he died because Mussolini, the fascist, killed him in prison.
- call someone a fascist
- become a fascist
- fascists and communists
Oh my gosh, sounds like a fascist now.
- Oh my gosh, sounds like a fascist now.
- When I say no free speech for fascists, I really do mean fascists.
- So he ends up writing to the fascists for help.
- And at the end of the lectures, the Polish fascists would beat them up.
- He's going to put the anarcho Christian fascists in the government.
- Trump and Musk are fascists, yes, by any definition.
- Now, communists and fascists, they answer differently.
- So he knows first hand what happens when Marxist socialists or fascists take over our country.
- You never find true fascist talking, only doing like me, right?
- But you can see the default, the default fascist in people that want to control.
- I hate the way body fascists tell you girls how thin you should be.
Examples
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Only last week, you were accused of being a fascist.
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By the spring of 1923, as the Fascists consolidated power in Rome, the game of chiefs was over.
Academic text (2017) -
But they were everyone agrees they were a fascist far right party.
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For that, he would need the full support of his allies, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
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If Nazis or other fascists took over North America, what would we all do?
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Trump and Musk are fascists, yes, by any definition.
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I became a partisan and I fought against the fascists.
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That was Franco era, a very, very right wing fascist Catholic dictatorship.
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Arnaldo, who had been forced into exile by the Italian Fascists, found an intellectual home in England.
Academic text (1995) -
Only last week, you were accused of being a fascist for your extreme political views.
Synonyms
A person who expects people to follow orders and allows little freedom
A person who supports a government that controls all parts of life
A person with extreme right-wing views insulted online
A person who supports very strict social rules and refuses to accept people who are different
Antonyms
Idioms
A saying that some people who call themselves liberal may show authoritarian views when challenged
Compounds
- NSFW
Information or material that supports fascist ideas and helps a fascist government control people
A Spanish armed group that tried to overthrow the government to make a communist state
- Offensive
A person who supports very strict left-wing rule and uses force to control people
- Offensive
A person who supports very strict social rules and refuses to accept people who are different
How Authoritarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fascist as a noun also comes from Italian fascio 'bundle' and Latin fascis 'bundle'. Because the bundle symbol stood for strong, united state power, a fascist is a person who supports strict, authoritarian or dictatorial rule.