EGALITARIAN Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of egalitarian

as in democrat

one who advocates or practices social equality as egalitarians, they have always promoted policies for equal pay

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snoot

egalitarian

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adjective

as in democratic

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Noun

The geopolitics of World War II is not the global order of today; our egalitarians and authoritarians are different, too. — Judy Berman, Time, 4 May 2026 For most of the National Guard’s history in the South, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial authoritarians, not racial egalitarians. — Justin Randolph, The Conversation, 17 June 2025

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Everyone sees potential in its optimistic, egalitarian vision of a fraternity of nations. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026 Most often, socialism morphs into totalitarianism, as its egalitarian ideals are no match for human nature. — Nolan Finley The Detroit News, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for egalitarian

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Despite the massive suppression of leftwing parties, the social democrats lost only one seat.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
Hers is the type of tony background many democrats have been running away from lately.

— Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of democrat

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The findings come three decades after the democratic government introduced a raft of measures — known as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) — aimed at reversing the dispossession suffered by Black people under apartheid and colonialism.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
For decades, the United States favored an international order that forbade wars of conquest, upheld freedom of the seas, maintained a generally open global economy, and allowed populations to exercise democratic rights, even if autocracies remained.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026

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