antidemocratic
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌæntidɪˈmɒkrətɪk/
:
antidemocrático
- Many activists are speaking out against the government's antidemocratic actions that undermine civil liberties.
- the antidemocratic right
- antidemocratic forces
- antidemocratic principles
Examples
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The resulting system is a mercantilist one, which could be characterized as an antidemocratic form of capitalism.
Academic text (1997) -
Unfortunately, antidemocratic forces continued to exist and threaten the fragile democracies.
Academic text (1999) -
Of course, antidemocratic forces in Russia will oppose such a move.
Academic text (2008) -
Although a few such antidemocratic institutions may have existed, these hardly were significant enough to pose a major problem.
Academic text (1998) -
Democracy claims to be tolerant and to welcome diversity, but it has always had difficulty tolerating antidemocratic principles and forces.
Academic text (2000) -
By contrast, in El Salvador, the 1970s and early 1980s saw the antidemocratic right decisively defeat the center-left.
Academic text (1998) -
Except perhaps in wartime, censorship is an antidemocratic, indeed tyrannical, act; one of the chief democratic freedoms is freedom of expression.
Academic text (1999) -
Most citizens manifested commitment to democratic norms, skepticism about military intervention, and disapproval of antidemocratic methods.
Academic text (2000) -
The opposition demonstrations were instrumental in creating a wedge between the hardline antidemocratic faction within KANU and its more moderate wing.
Academic text (1998) -
The new law has been criticized as antidemocratic because it restricts the right to free speech.
Synonyms
12
5.8
Not following rules that let people vote and choose leaders
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8.2
A government that holds elections but limits freedoms and controls the media
Antonyms
How Democratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
antidemocratic = democratic (transparent) = anti + democracy + ic
The meaning is directly compositional: 'anti-' means opposed to, and 'democratic' supplies the target notion of democracy.
Etymology
The word antidemocratic starts with anti- meaning 'against' and the rest comes from democratic, from democracy meaning 'rule by the people'. So antidemocratic describes actions or ideas that are against democracy or democratic government.