Meaning

Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people..

Definitions by Sense

1. Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
2. A person who accepts or promotes the view of equalitarianism.

Example Sentences

There was more than one way, however, in which the principles embodied in the cosmological conception of the Chain of Being could be used as weapons against social discontent and especially against all equalitarian movements.

Later it became the fashion to decry the militias, and therefore to pretend that the faults which were due to lack of training and weapons were the result of the equalitarian system. Actually, a newly raised draft of militia was an undisciplined mob not because the officers called the privates 'Comrade' but because raw troops are always an undisciplined mob.

In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household.

I keep using the term monogamus ^([sic]) as opposed to "marriage" because I feel that the marital institution is anti-gay in that it is not equalitarian as it now exists for heterosexuals...so it could not conceivably by equalitarian for us gay people.

Word Forms

• more equalitarian
• most equalitarian
• equalitarians

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Use equalitarian when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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