SOCIALIST Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

socialist

noun

ˈsō-sh(ə-)list

as in communist

an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state a lifelong socialist who never lost faith in his cause

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Recent Examples of socialist Democratic socialists won a decisive victory in Hollywood recently, albeit on a political battlefield few politicians have tread. —

Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026 Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has raised his national profile in part by championing higher taxes on the wealthy. —

Steve Kopack, NBC news, 20 May 2026 Patterson, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Black poet father and a German Jewish artist mother whose brother, a socialist in the French Resistance, had fought and then fled the Nazis. —

Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026 Over the past week, viral videos created with artificial intelligence have portrayed Pratt as the city’s savior from hapless Democrats and violent socialists. —

Jonathan J. Cooper, Twin Cities, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for socialist

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communist

Noun

Born in 1969, Satrapi spent her childhood in Tehran in a communist-leaning household.

— Hugo Lhomedet, USA Today, 4 June 2026
In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.

— Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026