republican

republican

adjective

Definition of REPUBLICAN

of, relating to, or favoring political democracy <a small but well-organized republican movement working quietly to overthrow the military dictatorship>

Synonyms popular, republican, self-governing, self-ruling

Related Words representative; libertarian, nontotalitarian

Near Antonyms autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, monarchal (or monarchial), monarchical (also monarchic), tyrannical (also tyrannic)

Antonyms nondemocratic, undemocratic