Adjective: decolonial
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more decolonial |
| Superlative | most decolonial |
Sample Sentences
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It was called for and led by the “Mafed collective of women experiencing racism” and supported by a host of international decolonial and antiracist activists, scholars and public figures – including the former Black Panther, Angela Davis. [2015 November 9, Alana Lentin, “'Real Australians' are a myth and 'saying welcome' to refugees is not enough”, in The Guardian:]
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The suit was filed by Rupa Marya, an internal medicine physician and professor at UCSF, identified as an expert in decolonial theory. Marya was placed on leave in September 2024 and had her clinical privileges briefly suspended by the UCSF executive medical board following comments she made on X that questioned the impacts of Zionism as “a supremacist, racist ideology” on healthcare. [2025 June 7, Edward Helmore, “Professor sues University of California for suspension over comments about Israel’s war in Gaza”, in The Guardian:]
Adjectives inflected like decolonial
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From de- + colonial.
Verbs referencing "decolonial"
Dutch Adjectives
dekoloniaal.