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

Having experienced communist reality since the North gained independence from imperial Japan in 1945, anti-communist North Koreans began fleeing south. —Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025

In certain ways, the campaign served as the mirror image of anti-communist and jingoistic propaganda in the United States at the time. —Wendy Z. Goldman, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025

When political darkness descended and Sudjojono vanished during the anti-communist purge, Rose faced a world where voices like hers were forced into silence. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025

Frankfurter and his fellow conservative, John Marshall Harlan, switched positions in three subsequent anti-communist cases by siding with the government’s crackdown. —Time, 14 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-communist

• noncommunist
• postcommunist