Word.ws English Dictionary

wokerati

wokerati noun: social-justice activists or woke people as a collective.

Noun (1)

wokerati pl (plural only)

  1. (derogatory, plural, plural-only, slang) Social-justice activists or woke people as a collective.
    • Here comes the California Wokerati —headquartered in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Westwood, and the Castro, backed by Malibu and Menlo-Atherton money—to cancel you for being Literally Hitler.2020, Michael Anton, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, unnumbered page
    • The wokerati have been at work again. Tate Britain has just opened what should be an extremely enjoyable Hogarth exhibition. […] Curators should be thrilled to have assembled such material for our delectation. Instead, it seems they don’t want us to enjoy the experience.2021 November 12, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, “Must every exhibition drive a bulldozer over the past?”, in The Times, UK

Noun (2) capitalized: Wokerati

Wokerati pl (plural only)

  1. (derogatory, plural, plural-only, slang) Alternative letter-case form of wokerati.
    • Here comes the California Wokerati —headquartered in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Westwood, and the Castro, backed by Malibu and Menlo-Atherton money—to cancel you for being Literally Hitler.2020, Michael Anton, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, unnumbered page
    • Toby Young piled in, applauding how [Laurence] Fox was “terrorising the Wokerati”, while the Sun last weekend branded Harry and Meghan “the oppressive King and Queen of Woke”.2020 January 21, Steve Rose, “How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right”, in The Guardian

Forms of wokerati

alternative formWokerati

Origin of wokerati

Blend of woke + literati.

Questions about wokerati

What does wokerati mean?
Wokerati means social-justice activists or woke people as a collective.
What part of speech is wokerati?
Wokerati is a noun.

Words near wokerati in the dictionary

  1. wokeness
  2. wokening
  3. wokens
  4. Wokepedia
  5. woker
  6. wokerati
  7. wokeries
  8. wokers
  9. wokery
  10. wokes
  11. wokescold

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wokerati (page history and authors); Wokerati (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:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wokerati.wav.

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