FEMINIST Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

feminist

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as in egalitarian

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Recent Examples of feminist Altering your body and face, and obsessively displaying yourself on the internet, was, by many people, deemed feminist, too. — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026 Her legacy has found new thrust among LGBTQIA+, Indigenous, disability, feminist, and Latin American empowerment movements. — Theo Lee, Vogue, 3 July 2026 Fuller, an early feminist, played a central role in many progressive movements in 19th century America, including abolition and prison reform. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 1 July 2026 Rowling's public statements against transgender women have led many to label her a transgender-exclusionary radical feminist, or TERF. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for feminist

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The geopolitics of World War II is not the global order of today; our egalitarians and authoritarians are different, too.

— Judy Berman, Time, 4 May 2026

Definition of egalitarian

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Now the rot is right there on the surface; the people smiling are less likely to be clueless optimists than the people who are happy about the rot, or profiting from it.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
That gloom extends far beyond assessments of the current time period; the Post/Ipsos poll found that 59% of Americans doubt their family's ability to improve their standard of living, outnumbering optimists by nearly 20 points.

— Emily Guskin, ABC News, 29 July 2026

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Doug Gibson, the novel’s closest thing to an idealist, is a pugilistic criminal-defense lawyer, the kind with ads on bus-stop benches.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
The campaign, which has highlighted divides over support for Israel, is a show for moderates against progressives, insiders against outsiders and pragmatists against idealists.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2026

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