antigovernment

English

Alternative forms

• anti-government

Etymology

From anti- +‎ government.

Adjective

antigovernment (comparative more antigovernment, superlative most antigovernment)

1. Opposed to a government currently in power.

   Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.

   • 2013 April 1, Timothy Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (Book collections on Project MUSE)‎^[1], NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:

     And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.

2. Opposed to government in general.

   They have an antigovernment philosophy.

   • 2021 April 9, “Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community”, in Office of the Director of National Intelligence‎^[2], page 24:

     This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.

   • 2021 April 13, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence community warns of devastating long-term impact of coronavirus pandemic”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.

   • 2023 October 31, Nicole Hemmer, “Opinion: Hard-right Republicans say they hate government, but they sure love the power”, in CNN‎^[4]:

     It is tempting to see these vacancies through the feature-not-a-bug lens of the Republican Party’s antigovernment politics. If a party doesn’t care about governing, why would it care that the government isn’t functioning?

Synonyms

• (opposed to a government): opposition
• (opposed to all government): anarchist

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “opposed to a government”): progovernment, pro-government
• (antonym(s) of “opposed to all government”): progovernment, pro-government

Translations

opposed to a government currently in power

• Belarusian: антыўра́давы (antyŭrádavy)
• Bulgarian: антиправи́телствен (antipravítelstven)
• Catalan: antigovernamental
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反政府 (zh) (fǎnzhèngfǔ)

• Czech: protivládní (cs)
• Finnish: hallituksenvastainen
• French: antigouvernemental (fr)
• German: regierungsfeindlich (de), regierungskritisch (de)
• Greek: αντικυβερνητικός (el) (antikyvernitikós)
• Japanese: 反政府 (ja) (はんせいふ, hanseifu)
• Korean: 반정부(反政府) (ko) (banjeongbu)
• Polish: antyrządowy (pl)
• Portuguese: antigoverno, antigovernamental
• Russian: антиправи́тельственный (ru) (antipravítelʹstvennyj)
• Slovak: protivládny
• Ukrainian: антиурядо́вий (antyurjadóvyj)

opposed to a government in general

• Belarusian: антыўра́давы (antyŭrádavy)
• Czech: protivládní (cs)
• Finnish: hallituksenvastainen
• French: antigouvernemental (fr)
• Polish: antyrządowy (pl)
• Portuguese: antigoverno, antigovernamental
• Russian: антиправи́тельственный (ru) (antipravítelʹstvennyj)
• Slovak: protivládny
• Ukrainian: антиурядо́вий (antyurjadóvyj)

Noun

antigovernment (plural antigovernments)

1. A government set up to oppose another government.
   • 2017, Richard K. Betts, Conflict After the Cold War:

     Insurrection and subversion are primarily the weapons of indigenous antigovernments. Foreign governments, of course, may encourage antigovernments.