Equalitarian

Quick meaning: Equalitarian is an adjective meaning Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.

Meaning

Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.

More Meanings

1. A person who accepts or promotes the view of equalitarianism.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• equalitarians

Synonyms for equalitarian

Depending on context, synonyms include egalitarian.

Antonyms for equalitarian

Common opposites include elitist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include egalitarian, egalitarianistic, democratic, inegalitarian, left-wing, antiequalitarian.

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