egalitarian

adjective

egal·​i·​tar·​i·​an i-ˌga-lə-ˈter-ē-ən 

: asserting, promoting, or marked by egalitarianism

egalitarian noun

Examples of egalitarian in a Sentence

egalitarian policies for the redistribution of wealth

Recent Examples on the Web

The degree to which these revolutions met (or did not meet) their egalitarian aims should be understood in the light of processes that took a full generation to unfold. —The New Yorker, 12 June 2024

Best of all, the posters follow the egalitarian spirit of the city. —Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024

What unites these progressive critiques is the belief that the United States, guided by an old-style liberal internationalist vision, has failed to use its power to build a more peaceful, democratic, and egalitarian world. —Van Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

The values that the anarchists had been championing — a return to a more egalitarian society liberated from the twin leviathans of Big Government and Big Capital — largely disappeared from mainstream political conversation over the subsequent century. —Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024

Word History

Etymology

French égalitaire, from égalité equality, from Latin aequalitat-, aequalitas, from aequalis equal

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing egalitarian

• anti-egalitarian