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

Instead, the Truman Administration embraced the white regime in South Africa as a Cold War ally: anti-communist, rich in uranium (essential for U.S. nuclear weapons), and staunchly white supremacist. —Time, 22 May 2025

The same can be seen in Eisenhower's former Vice President Richard Nixon of California, an anti-communist hawk who became president in 1969 and oversaw the diplomatically successful policy of détente. —Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025

And yet even as an ardent anti-communist, Rand saw free trade as an antidote to the threat of Communist China. —Ben Bayer, Oc Register, 19 May 2025

Terrified of the prospect of communist victory, Washington sabotaged the 1954 Geneva Accords, which had called for national elections, and supported an anti-communist government in the South. —Leo Tran, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-communist

• noncommunist
• postcommunist