anti-communist

adjective

an·​ti-com·​mu·​nist

ˌan-tē-ˈkäm-yə-nist, 

-yü-, 

ˌan-tī- 

variants or anti-Communist or anticommunist

: opposed to Communism

anti-communist leaders

an anti-Communist ideology

anti-communist noun

or anti-Communist or anticommunist

… they expressed their feelings with a directness that few anti-Communists could rival.

—Julius Gould

anti-communism noun

or anti-Communism or anticommunism

ˌan-tē-ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm, 

-yü-, 

ˌan-tī- 

Sometimes he is aroused to arms against those whose anti-Communism is merely less salient or monolithic than his own …

—Dennis H. Wrong

Examples of anti-communist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The severe inflation in the late 1940s that destroyed China’s anti-Communist middle class in urban areas helped enable Mao’s Communists to triumph in that country’s civil war. —Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

An investigation into Abe’s assassination revealed close ties between his governing party and the church, dating back to a 1960s anti-communist movement supported by Abe’s grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. —Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026

Another Polish leader at the time, Wladyslaw Gomulka, oversaw the persecution of the Catholic Church and anti-communist opposition. —Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026

Rubio may have achieved a long-standing anti-Communist goal. —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-communist

• noncommunist
• postcommunist