CAPITALIST Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈka-pə-tə-list

Definition of capitalist

as in have

a wealthy person capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash

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adjective

variants or capitalistic

as in economic

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Recent Examples of capitalist

Noun

The gallery has operated in the Bay Area since 1993 and, according to Williams, has recently been fielding interest from venture capitalists. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026 Low interest rates let venture capitalists fund nonsense web businesses and let banks provide junk loans to borrowers with terrible credit. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026

Adjective

Many moments were dark comedies about the capitalist dehumanization of security. — Terrance Hayes, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 Willem Dafoe costars as a former vampire nicknamed Elvis who leads a resistance against the greedy, capitalist vampire upper class — a good indication of the film’s campy tone. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for capitalist

Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalist

Noun

Control is exercised through shell companies and tax haves in Switzerland led by front men who are dual nationals of Iran residing abroad.

— Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
In a dwindling list of haves, the SEC very much remains a powerbroker.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

Definition of have

Adjective

The Herald obtained Whitaker’s May 29 email through a records request to James Kohnstamm, who is director of economic development for the administration of Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and also a member of the GMCVB board.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
But the antitrust curveball leveled two weeks ago by a dozen state AGs—repping the world’s fourth-largest economic powerhouse, California’s Rob Bonta is leading the charge—would appear to have put any near-term talks between the NFL and CBS on hold.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of economic

Noun

The issue is the policy infrastructure that allows people like Musk to become not rich, not super-rich, but plutocrat-rich.

— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.

— Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

Definition of plutocrat

Adjective

Wolf Ruzicka, global chief commercial officer and CEO North America at Unlimit, broke the answer down this way for me.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Firefighters also halted a blaze in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, and officials reported damage to commercial and residential property in two additional districts.

— Greg Myre, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of commercial

Noun

Villa’s desire to address this position has grown in prominence over the summer, with Jadon Sancho’s loan ending, Evann Guessand and Leon Bailey available to leave and Villa having the money to spend from Rogers’ sale.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Georgia voters should look twice before donating money to candidates this election season.

— Sophia Eppley, AJC.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of money

Noun

One of his earliest and most public successes was the restoration of John Jacob Astor IV, the ultra-wealthy Manhattan business magnate who drowned with the Titanic.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
But the great-grandson became wealthy in his own right as a magnate and pioneer in the New York hotel industry.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of magnate

Noun

West Ham said in June, following relegation to the Championship, that Czech billionaire Kretinsky would become the majority shareholder by buying 16 per cent of the Gold family’s shares, but that arrangement fell through.

— Leon Imber, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
In the 2014 sci-fi film Ex Machina, Oscar Isaac played a reclusive AI-tech billionaire dwelling in an architectural masterpiece—the Juvet Landscape Hotel—and a private summer home in Valldal, Norway.

— Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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