nonaligned

[non-uh-lahynd]

adjective

1. not aligned.

   nonaligned machine parts.

2. not allied with or favoring any other nation or bloc.

   nonaligned African nations.

noun

1. a nonaligned person or nation.

nonaligned

/ ˌnɒnəˈlaɪnd /

adjective

1. (of states) not part of a major alliance or power bloc, esp not allied to the US, China, or formerly the Soviet Union

Other Word Forms

• nonalignment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonaligned¹

1955–60; non- + aligned ( def. )

Example Sentences

At the same time, the U.S. is increasing pressure on “nonaligned” countries—building up its military presence next to Venezuela and cutting aid External link to Colombia.

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The Cold War is over but the appetite for power among anti-American “nonaligned” ideologues is as it ever was.

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India spent the Cold War trying to position itself as a nonaligned power.

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It concentrates on five satellite states that spent the later 20th century under the thumb of Moscow — Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania — as well as the nonaligned socialist state of Yugoslavia.

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Throughout the Cold War, India would be a leader of what came to be known as the nonaligned movement — formerly colonized nations that sought to develop independently of both American and Soviet influence.

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Related Words

• dispassionate 
• evenhanded 
• impartial 
• nonpartisan 
• unbiased