Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun totalitarian

1 sense of totalitarian

Sense 1
totalitarian -- (an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government)
       => disciple, adherent -- (someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another)

Antonyms of adj totalitarian

1 of 2 senses of totalitarian

Sense 1
totalitarian -- (characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.)

INDIRECT (VIA undemocratic) -> democratic -- (characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality; "democratic government"; "a democratic country"; "a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"- George du Maurier)

Similarity of adj totalitarian

2 senses of totalitarian

Sense 1
totalitarian -- (characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.)
       => undemocratic (vs. democratic) -- (not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals; "the union broke with its past undemocratic procedures")

Sense 2
totalitarian, totalistic -- (of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion")