fascist

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or relating to fascism.
2. Supporting the principles of fascism.
3. (figuratively, informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.

Noun

A proponent of fascism.

Synonyms

fascistic

authoritarian

Nazi

black-shirt

oligarchical

paternalist

plutocratic

fascista

blackshirt

oligarchic

Translations

fasciste

fascista

fascista

Faschist

fascista

faschistisch

feixista

faşist

فاشستي

فاشي

φασίστας

Faschistin

fascist

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfæʃɪst/

Etymology

1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.

Sentences

Opposition to the fascist regime soon matured in the Turin environment .

This role was a broad parody of the fascist then-dictator of Italy , Benito Mussolini .