Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter
  1. Word Games
  2. Word of the Day
  3. New Words & Slang
  4. Video
 

capitalist


2capitalist

adj
\ˌka-pə-tə-ˈlis-tik, ˌkap-tə-, British also kə-ˌpi-tə-\

Definition of CAPITALIST

1
: owning capital <the capitalist class>
2
a : practicing or advocating capitalism <capitalist nations> b : marked by capitalism <capitalist period of history>
— cap·i·tal·is·ti·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
See capitalist defined for English-language learners »

Variants of CAPITALIST

capitalist or cap·i·tal·is·tic \ˌka-pə-tə-ˈlis-tik, ˌkap-tə-, British also kə-ˌpi-tə-\

First Known Use of CAPITALIST

1845

Other Government and Politics Terms

agent provocateur, agitprop, autarky, cabal, egalitarianism, federalism, hegemony, plenipotentiary, popular sovereignty, socialism

Learn More About CAPITALIST

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: capitalization
Previous Word in the Dictionary: capital issue
All Words Near: capitalist

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up capitalist? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).