antisocialist

See also: anti-socialist

English

Alternative forms

• anti-socialist

Etymology

From anti- +‎ socialist.

Noun

antisocialist (plural antisocialists)

1. (politics) One who opposes socialism.
   • 1981, The Nation - Volume 232, page 406:

     Hayden's problem here, I think, is an excessive consistency: not being a socialist, or at least not wanting to take his political stand on that principle, he assumes he must, then, be an antisocialist.

Adjective

antisocialist (comparative more antisocialist, superlative most antisocialist)

1. Opposed to socialism.
   • 2010, Bruce Hodgins, Don Wright, W.H. Heick, Federalism in Canada and Australia: The Early Years:

     Labor could scarcely barter with a party that adopted an antisocialist stance or trade support in return for concessions with a party terming itself antisocialist.

   • 2019, Gerard Braunthal, The German Social Democrats Since 1969:

     One year later, the responses were even more antisocialist: 64 percent, no; 15 percent, yes; and 21 percent, undecided or with no opinion.

Related terms

• antisocialism

Translations

one who opposes socialism

• Georgian: ანტისოციალისტი (anṭisocialisṭi)
• Portuguese: antissocialista m or f