democratic synonyms

democratic

modif.

popular, constitutional, orderly, just, representative, republican, egalitarian, populist, Jeffersonian, free, equal, advocating democracy, characterized by principles of political equality, common, bourgeois, individualistic, communal, laissez-faire; see also free 1, liberal 2, republican.

Antonyms autocratic*, elitist*, oligarchic.

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