Prefix
Against, opposed to.
Synonym: counter-
Antonym: pro-
anti- + abortion → antiabortion
anti- + racism → antiracism
Counteracting, neutralizing.
Synonym: counter-
anti- + aircraft → antiaircraft
anti- + freeze → antifreeze
anti- + bacterial → antibacterial
The opposite of what is typically expected.
anti- + hero → antihero (“a protagonist who acts in an unheroic manner”)
anti- + climax → anticlimax (“a failed or reverse climax”)
anti- + chess → antichess (“a variant of chess where the goal is to lose all of one's pieces”)
Physically opposite, reverse in position or direction.
anti- + clockwise → anticlockwise
anti- + Arctic → Antarctic
A rival or counterpart to.
anti- + pope → antipope (“a person who claims to be the real pope”)
anti- + Christ → Antichrist
(particle physics) Composed of antimatter.
anti- + electron → antielectron
anti- + galaxy → antigalaxy
(immunology) Reacting with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
anti- + rabbit → antirabbit
anti- + horse → antihorse
A form of giant abatis, using whole trees instead of branches, can be used as an improvised anti- tank obstacle. Source: Internet
Acting on a tip off, the anti- team carried out a raid in the Başkale district, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media. Source: Internet
Elements of the Ohio Army National Guard were ordered to Kent State University by Ohio's governor Jim Rhodes to quell anti- Vietnam War protests, culminating in their shooting into a crowd of students on May 4, 1970, killing four and injuring nine. Source: Internet
A small number of recreational inhalant drugs are pharmaceutical products that are used illicitly, such as anesthetics (ether and nitrous oxide) and volatile anti- angina drugs ( alkyl nitrites ). Source: Internet
He is best known today as the author of De inventione dialectica, as the father of northern European humanism and as a zealous anti- scholastic in the late-fifteenth century. Source: Internet
At first the community feared that the annexation would lead to difficulties and during the first years its political stance was, in general, anti- Venizelist and pro-royalist/conservative. Source: Internet