Word.ws English Dictionary

antidemocratic

antidemocratic adjective: opposed to the tenets of democracy.

Adjective

antidemocratic (comparative more antidemocratic, superlative most antidemocratic)

  1. Opposed to the tenets of democracy.
    • The aesthetics at play were a bit antidemocratic, accelerationist, what have you; and mainstream coverage of the trend from this past spring cited propaganda experts on its allegedly alarming implications.2022 August 11, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Stop Putting Lasers in Joe Biden’s Eyes”, in The Atlantic

Forms of antidemocratic

comparativemore antidemocratic
superlativemost antidemocratic
alternative formanti-democratic

Origin of antidemocratic

From anti- + democratic.

Words formed from antidemocratic

Questions about antidemocratic

What does antidemocratic mean?
Antidemocratic means opposed to the tenets of democracy.
What part of speech is antidemocratic?
Antidemocratic is an adjective.

Words near antidemocratic in the dictionary

  1. antidelusional
  2. antidementia
  3. antidementive
  4. antidemocracy
  5. antidemocrat
  6. antidemocratic
  7. antidemocratical
  8. antidemocratically
  9. antidemocrats
  10. antidemoniac
  11. antidemonic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: antidemocratic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “antidemocratic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/antidemocratic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.