anti
anti
Definition
anti (an′tī′, -tē)
noun pl. -·tis′
Informal a person opposed to some policy, proposal, action, etc.
Etymology: < anti-, in various compounds
Informal opposed to; against
anti
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: The mask lens has a special anti fogging coating.
- rotate: A four storied brick tower mill with ogee cap, eight bladed fantail and four single sided patent sails rotating anti clockwise.
- call: Call the Anti Fascist League, the manâs obviously in cahoots with BNP.
- give: In these days of political correctness the actions of a few irresponsible anglers can give the antis more ammunition.
Adjective modifier
- effective: It's a very simple, effective anti counterfeiting device.
- new: Firstly, I am responsible for most of the instrument trials we use as the final proving of new anti fouling technologies.
Modifies a noun
- depressant: Over half of my client base have used anti depressants to no effect.
- behavior: These are crucial in police plans to combat anti social behavior.
- semitism: And, I am not suggesting that anti semitism is the fault of the far right, although they are a factor.
- climax: Getting to Faro was always going to be a bit of an anti climax for me.
- apron: Heavy duty and anti static aprons are manufactured with eyelets at waist and neck height to take tying tapes ( supplied ).
- campaigner: Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, son of the anti slave campaigner William Wilberforce attacked evolution at a famous Oxford debate in 1860.
Modifying Another Word
- very: Unsurprisingly, his early experience of police racism made him very anti white.
- not: Robin is not anti English or anti any nationality.
- also: Also anti Tesco protest camp, anti shell protest, peat extraction company targeted and more.
- vehemently: That is the argument which tends to come from those who are vehemently anti war ( what - they want more war?
- ever: In Mozambique I have visited the factory where in a clinic they are successfully testing the first ever anti malaria preventive vaccine.
- aggressively: Critics were either rapturously pro or aggressively anti, and Opera dance could never be the same again.
Noun used with modifier
- twist: Just twist anti clockwise to detach, and turn the new ones clockwise until they click into place.
Used with adjective complement
- include: The Web site contains a number of BPA safety documents, notices and manuals, including anti doping policy, in Word format.
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