antigovernment

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Opposed to a government currently in power.

   • Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.
2. 2

   Opposed to government in general.

   • They have an antigovernment philosophy.
   • This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.
   • Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.
3. 3

   A government set up to oppose another government.

   • Insurrection and subversion are primarily the weapons of indigenous antigovernments. Foreign governments, of course, may encourage antigovernments.

The neighborhood

• synonymanarchistopposed to all government
• antonymprogovernmentantonym(s) of “opposed to a government”
• antonympro-governmentantonym(s) of “opposed to a government”