antidemocratic

adjective

an·​ti·​dem·​o·​crat·​ic
ˌan-tē-ˌde-mə-ˈkra-tik,
ˌan-ˌtī- How to pronounce antidemocratic (audio)
: opposed or hostile to the theories or policies of democracy

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More broadly, the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia raise the larger question of what a collaboration of antidemocratic nations can accomplish – particularly as a destabilizing force. Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024 Since the 2010s, successive Israeli governments have actively chipped away at the country’s tenuous institutional framework in order to advance an exclusivist, expansionist, and increasingly antidemocratic Zionist state. Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024 Eventually, Congress could enact reforms that lessen some of our system’s antidemocratic distortions. Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024 At first, the war stopped the protest movement in its tracks, allowing the government to pursue many of its antidemocratic plans with far less scrutiny. Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for antidemocratic 

Word History

First Known Use

1791, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of antidemocratic was in 1791

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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antidemocratic. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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