ANTIDEMOCRATIC Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

antidemocratic

adjective

Definition of antidemocratic

as in totalitarian

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Recent Examples of antidemocratic Great replacement theory has spurred many everyday White people into supporting antidemocratic political parties that harm most White people—and the rest of us. — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths. — Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic. — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025 That pursuit was also driven by the transformation of conservatism itself—which, beginning in the Nineties, became ever more extremist, populist, anti-government, antidemocratic, and supportive of authoritarian measures. — Terry M. Moe, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for antidemocratic

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Orwell was exploring the roles that euphemism, tangled syntax, and dying metaphors can play in obscuring the true intentions of a totalitarian state.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Since then, North Korea has expanded its nuclear weapons program, and analysts believe the totalitarian regime now has dozens of nuclear warheads.

— Anna Coren, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of totalitarian

Adjective

Central Connecticut State University President Zulma Toro resigned Wednesday following an investigation into a complaint alleging the workplace culture under her leadership was oppressive, bullying and intimidating.

— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026
In its opening episodes, the series carefully distinguishes Lizzie from her male killer counterparts while highlighting the oppressive conditions women faced in the era.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of oppressive

Adjective

Mason said experts in her field do not deny the existence of authoritarian personalities on the left, but ended up developing other, less partisan scales including one based on people's values for raising children.

— Lisa Hagen, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
The second half throws us into the other timeline, where Ari’s doppelgänger, known as Ibari, is a high-ranking undercover operative willing to disappear fellow citizens that pose challenges to the authoritarian government.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of authoritarian

Adjective

In both cases, there is something at once magisterial and leadenly self-regarding about the melancholic rhythms of Cusk’s prose, with its stiff and stately syntax and its utter impatience with the real vagaries of difference.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
As outlined in the magisterial biography produced by his grandson, Peter Ascoli, and a remarkable documentary by Aviva Kempner, Rosenwald’s accomplishments were breathtaking.

— Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of magisterial

Adjective

Domingo played the tyrannical show-biz patriarch Joe Jackson in the movie.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Her little acts of rebellion towards her tyrannical teachers attract the admiration of three other misfits and the four girls form an inseparable group.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of tyrannical

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