anti-fascist

adjective

an·​ti-fas·​cist ˌan-tē-ˈfa-shist 

ˌan-tī-,

 also  -sist

variants or less commonly anti-Fascist or antifascist

: opposed to fascism

anti-fascist protesters

… the film suggests a counterculture version of the anti-fascist thrillers of the forties.

—The New Yorker

anti-fascist noun

or less commonly anti-Fascist or antifascist

Those few weeks turned me into a devout anti-fascist.

—Martha Gellhorn

anti-fascism

ˌan-tē-ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm 

ˌan-tī-

 also  -ˈfa-ˌsi-

noun

or less commonly anti-Fascism or antifascism

They were united only by their anti-Fascism and their contempt for Badoglio and the King.

—Robert Katz

Examples of anti-fascist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Black Americans in the Popular Front against Fascism The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes. —JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025

The drinking, the street fights, the vandalism, the obsession with confronting anti-fascists and the storming of the U.S. Capitol were all, as Rehl tells it, acts of defiance against a corrupt and opaque government. —Will Carless, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025

Even the most naked acts of aggression – of which Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine is the most egregious example – brands itself, not as imperial, but as anti-fascist. —Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

Bedknobs is also, lo and behold, an explicitly anti-fascist movie: Eglantine, a staunch supporter of the war effort, magically animates antique arms and armor housed in a museum to fight off literal Nazis. —Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above