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anti-authoritarian

anti-authoritarian is the alternative spelling of antiauthoritarian.

Meaning of antiauthoritarian

Adjective

antiauthoritarian (comparative more antiauthoritarian, superlative most antiauthoritarian)

  1. Opposed to authoritarianism
    • For good or ill, American society is becoming increasingly democratic and antiauthoritarian, and most Catholics are participating in the democratization of the total culture.1988 June 3, F.K. Plous Jr., “The Authenticists' Conundrum”, in Chicago Reader
  2. Opposed to authority

See all 3 meanings of antiauthoritarian

Forms of anti-authoritarian

Adjective
comparativemore anti-authoritarian
superlativemost anti-authoritarian
Noun
pluralanti-authoritarians

Origin of anti-authoritarian

From anti- + authoritarian.

Questions about anti-authoritarian

What is anti-authoritarian the alternative spelling of?
Anti-authoritarian is the alternative spelling of antiauthoritarian.

Words near anti-authoritarian in the dictionary

  1. anti-Arabism
  2. anti-Armenianism
  3. anti-art
  4. anti-Assyrianism
  5. anti-Australianism
  6. anti-authoritarian
  7. anti-authoritarianism
  8. anti-authoritarians
  9. anti-autistic
  10. anti-avoidance
  11. anti-B7-H4

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-authoritarian (page history and authors); antiauthoritarian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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