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

In the 1950s and 1960s, McCarthyism swept through the nation, fueling anti-communist fervor and persecution that shook the very foundation of the American identity. —Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024

Buckley’s magazine, National Review, the flagship of the movement, published regular panegyrics to anti-communist generalissimos, heaping adoration on the likes of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain’s Francisco Franco. —Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024

Manuel Rocha, the former U.S. ambassador arrested in Miami earlier this month accused of being a covert agent for Cuba, had a reputation for being a staunch anti-communist Republican. —Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024

Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. —Vanessa Gera, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023

His role in arranging the secret sale of weapons to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua put him in the spotlight. —Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024

In general, the narrative before and through World War II is presented in color, whereas the physicist’s postwar conflicts — when anti-communist forces spearheaded by an aggrieved bureaucrat, Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.), stripped Oppenheimer of his security clearance — play in monochrome. —Robert Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024

On the other hand, pace Orson Welles, 1948 was also the dateline for John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Howard Hawks’s Red River, and, getting in just under the anti-communist gun, Abraham Polansky’s Force of Evil. —Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023

Conservatives have pushed anti-communist curriculums for a century. —Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above