anticolonial

[an-tee-kuh-loh-nee-uhl, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. opposing colonialism.

noun

1. a person or country that actively opposes colonialism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticolonial¹

anti- + colonial

Example Sentences

In Connecticut, members hailed the launch of “an unprecedented anticolonial struggle.”

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Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.

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Amin’s impoverishment of his nation was noble because it was anticolonial; Mr. Museveni’s attempt to restructure the Ugandan economy was craven because he prostrated himself before Western capital.

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Mr. Hirsh holds the “anticolonial left” most at fault for current antisemitism, suggesting that the far left has devised a vocabulary that allows other kinds of Jew-hatred to flourish.

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The show is anticolonial and anti-imperialist in a way that “Star Wars” taught audiences to recognize, if not necessarily recognize in the world around them, and anticapitalist in a way that movies have most always been.

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