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The root word, sesquipedalian, means "given to long words". This could describe a speech or some form of written communication and has negative connotations, i.e., the piece is difficult to understand because of the contrived use of long words for which shorter words could have been used, possibly designed by the speaker/writer to sound smarter or more educated than they are.
If we add the suffix -ist to it, one can assume that it would mean "one who is prone to the contrived over-usage of long words".
The prefix anti- can indicate to the opposite meaning of the word or opposition to the concept. Therefore, an antisesquipedalianist is either one who uses small words or one who is opposed to the contrived over-usage of long words.
Personally, my own pithier and more ironically humorous definition of the word is one who is opposed to the use of long words. How strictly correct my definition is can be debated, but it generally gets giggles, so I'll keep it.
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