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anti Definition

anti (antī′, -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.