anti-communist

adjective

an·​ti-com·​mu·​nist

ˌan-tē-ˈkäm-yə-nist,

-yü-,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or anti-Communist or anticommunist

: opposed to Communism

anti-communist leaders

an anti-Communist ideology

anti-communist noun

or anti-Communist or anticommunist

… they expressed their feelings with a directness that few anti-Communists could rival.

—Julius Gould

anti-communism noun

or anti-Communism or anticommunism

ˌan-tē-ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm,

-yü-,

ˌan-tī- 

Sometimes he is aroused to arms against those whose anti-Communism is merely less salient or monolithic than his own …

—Dennis H. Wrong

Examples of anti-communist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the 1960s and 1970s, flyers with this anti-communist slogan were plastered on electric poles and walls throughout South Korea and were meant to encourage North Korean spies to stop conducting espionage, turn themselves in and start a peaceful life in South Korea. —Regina Kim, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. government recruited the Hmong to fight in the Secret War in Laos, where the U.S. had been covertly providing aid and military assistance to anti-communist forces. —Giang Nguyen-Dien, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024

From the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA proprietary airlines flew arms into the Golden Triangle for anti-communist guerillas, and were suspected of flying out with the guerillas’ opium. —Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024

Working under layers of makeup, Dennis Quaid depicts the late president as a folksy if fervent anti-communist crusader who faces down campus protesters before taking on the Kremlin. —Peter Bart, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above