Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who is opposed to something, such as a group, policy, proposal, or practice.
- adj. Opposed: "Douglas MacArthur had a coterie of worshipers, balanced off by an equal number . . . who were vehemently anti” ( Joseph C. Harsch).
- prep. Opposed to; against.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A prefix of Greek origin: originally only in compounds or derivatives taken from the Greek or formed of Greek elements, as in antipathy, antinomy, etc. (the earliest example in English being antichrist, which see), but now a familiar English formative, meaning primarily against, opposed to. It forms — Compound nouns (with the accent on the prefix), in which anti- has the attributive force of opposed to, opponent, opposite, counter, as in antichrist, antipope, antichorus, anticyclone, antipole, etc.
- n. One who is opposed to some proposed or undertaken course of action, policy, measure, movement, or enactment, as, for example, to imperialism.
- n. In chem., a prefix used to indicate that two groups or two atoms which might react with each other are so separated in space that they do not readily do this. It is contrasted with the prefix syn-. Thus in antibenzaldoxime, , the H and OH do not readily combine to form water, while in synbenzaldoxime, , such a combination takes place easily.
Wiktionary
- adj. chemistry Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
- n. A person opposed to a concept or principle.
- prep. rare A word used before a noun or noun phrase to indicate opposition to the concept expressed by the noun or noun phrase.
GNU Webster's 1913
- A prefix meaning
against ,opposite oropposed to ,contrary , orin place of ; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened toant- .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
- adj. not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.)
Etymologies
- Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective, from Latin anti, from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, "against, opposite, instead of"), from (ánta), from Proto-Indo-European *anti (compare Hittite hanza 'front', Latin ante 'before', Tocharian A ánt(e) 'forehead', Gothic and 'throughout', Lithuanian añt 'on, in order to', Ossetian ändä 'outside', Sanskrit ántas 'end, boundary'). (Wiktionary)
- From anti-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“MISCELLANEOUS WORDS. adobe _ado'ba_ algebra not _bra_ alien _alyen_, not _alien_ ameliorate _amelyorate_ antarctic _antarktik_ anti not _anti_ archangel _arkangel_ archbishop _arch_, not _ark_ arch fiend _arch_, not _ark_ architect _arkitect_ awkward _awkward_, not _ard_”
“You are entirely mistaken about both "Jewish propaganda," which is an insulting and racist term, not that I am surprised, and about the term anti-Semitism.”
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“The term anti-Semitism was invented by Wilhlem Marr (as Barbara said) to denote hatred of Jews and is used exactly as he, the inventor, intended, so how could it have been hijacked?”
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“When the label anti is applied to you, you think it unfair.”
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“What I want to know, was the term anti-american a phrase Matthews made up or was he directly quoting her from a previous speech or interview?”
“Israel haters always complain that they get accused of being anti-Semitic, but you Carl have no qualms about flinging the label anti-Arab around even without any evidence.”
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“I think the term anti-Semite should be metered out, lest the complaint become diluted.”
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“The term anti-semite DOES NOT apply - by Linda Milazzo on Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 at 4: 04: 46 PM”
“It may seem like a minor point, but any attempt to dilute the term anti-Semitism by linking it to all the peoples of the Mideast, and not just the Jews, is an insidious form of, well, anti-Semitism.”
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“The term anti-Semitism is a relic of the late nineteenth century, when the mania for dressing up ancient prejudices and hatreds with "scientific" phraseology reached its height.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anti’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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prefix (regular, compound, hyphenate)
cool prefixes to add to anything (noun, verb, adjective) to create a word, compound word or 2 word phrase.
examples: hyper = hypercharge ; phantom = phantom charge.
go...uber, super, hyper, phantom, mega, ultra, quantum, maxi, poli, exo, extra, multi and 25 more...
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Prefixes
a-, ab, abs, ambi, ante, anti, aqu, aqua, arch, astro, auto, bene and 71 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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MY WORDS
egoist, entomologists, egotist, altruist, introvert, extrovert, ambivert, misanthrope, misogynist, misogamist, ascetic, Altruism and 193 more...
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laugharn's Words
schoenfraun, schadenfreude, scrabble, meta, phantom, interceptor, incandescence, synecdoche, tmesis, reverie, heretofore, tantamount and 35 more...
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Kenn's Words
indeed, facetious, superb, anti, sepulcher, broken, indigo, lyre, myth, misanthropic, slither
Tweets
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Telofy Does anyone feel or know of any phonological, geographical or sociolinguistic differences between the pronunciations /ˈæntaɪ/ and /ˈænti/ within the US?
(Or perhaps for semi-?)
Thanks! Dec 27, 2009