equalitarian

Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.

Adjective

  1. Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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. - 1957 October 21, “The...

    Synonyms: egalitarian

Origin

Coined around 1800 from equality + -arian.

Forms

more equalitarian most equalitarian

Derived

antiequalitarian equalitarianism inequalitarian nonequalitarian pseudoequalitarian

Noun

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

    Synonyms: egalitarian

Forms

equalitarians