anticolonial

American  

[an-tee-kuh-loh-nee-uhl, an-tahy-] / ˌæn ti kəˈloʊ ni əl, ˌæn taɪ- /

adjective

1. opposing colonialism.

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noun

1. a person or country that actively opposes colonialism.

Etymology

Origin of anticolonial

anti- + colonial

Example Sentences

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

Perhaps most striking of all was how many female volunteers brought along their young daughters, inducting new generations of women into anticolonial politics.

From BBC

To the reader not expertly versed in global affairs, the many names and acronyms in the book are likely to overwhelm rather than pique curiosity about anticolonial resistance in Nyasaland, or separatist nationalism in Puerto Rico, or the intra-Chinese rivalries of the 1930s that made Shanghai “the very public assassination capital of the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal