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
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A form of giant abatis, using whole trees instead of branches, can be used as an improvised anti- tank obstacle.
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.
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.
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 ).
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.
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.