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anti-

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Meaning

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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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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

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