Adjective: fascist
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fascist |
| Superlative | most fascist |
Sample Sentences
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The movie clearly and unmistakably gives us a character who understands the Bill of Rights, understands his legal responsibility as a police officer, and nevertheless takes retribution into his own hands. Sure, Scorpio is portrayed as the most vicious, perverted, warped monster we can imagine — but that’s part of the same stacked deck. The movie’s moral position is fascist. No doubt about it. [1971, Roger Ebert, “Dirty Harry”, in Chicago Sun-Times:]
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Under demagogues such as Donald Trump in the U.S., Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Recep Erdoğan in Turkey, Narendra Modi in India and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a moral abyss has emerged in which state violence, widespread repression and a surge of lawlessness against those considered disposable have become the hallmark of an updated fascist politics. [2020 March 2, Henry A. Giroux, “Auschwitz Survivors Don’t Want Their Past to Be Their Grandchildren’s Future”, in Truthout, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2021:]
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I have a fascist boss.
Adjectives inflected like fascist
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin fascis
3. Italian fascio
4. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
6. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
7. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
8. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
9. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
10. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
11. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
12. Latin -istabor.
13. Italian -ista
14. Italian fascistabor.
15. English fascist
16. 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. See: Italian Adjectives '
fascista'.