anti
UK/ˈæn.ti//ˈæn.taɪ/
anti adjective: opposed to something. Also the alternative form of anti-.
Adjective
anti (comparative more anti, superlative most anti)
- Opposed to something.
- That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
Noun
anti (plural antis)
- A person opposed to a concept or principle.
- On one occasion, franchise supporters accused antis of dumping lemons, wet sponges, rolls of ticker tape, bags of water, and garbage pails on innocent suffrage supporters parading outside the anti-suffrage offices.2002, Thomas Jablonsky, “Female Opposition: The Anti-Suffrage Campaign”, in Jean H. Baker, editor, Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited (Viewpoints on American culture), Oxford...
- Antis jumped on this announcement, calling it vote buying and indicative of the hypocrisy of prohibitionists who talked incessantly in the first election about the immorality of the antis' vote-buying efforts.2012, H. Paul Thompson, Jr., A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865–1887, page 222
- A fan who objects to a particular creator, franchise, fandom, character, ship, etc., especially on moral or sociopolitical grounds.
- While I did not directly analyze how the antis define feminism, it appears that they believe Sarah J Maas as an author is a white feminist and therefore unable to write anything feminist.2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform, and Community in an Online Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Denver, page 94
- Other fans or viewers are thus not coded as fans but instead positioned as either homophobic, angry "antis" (even if they ship Johnlock or other queer ships) or as the outsider "casuals" who aren't dedicated or smart or invested enough to properly interpret Sherlock.2019, Emily E. Roach, "Supernatural: Wincest and Dean Winchester's Bisexual Panic", in "From Canon to Politics: Queerbaiting and The CW's Supergirl", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through...
- Synonyms:
- fancop, fandomentalist, fandom Frollo, fanpol, fanti, Frollo
Also used as
anti is also the alternative form of anti-.
anti meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati
anti in Hindi
- एंटी
anti in Urdu
- اینٹی
anti in Bengali
- অ্যান্টি
anti in Gujarati
- એન્ટી
More languagesFewer languages
- anti in Nepali
- एन्टी, एन्टि
- anti in Indonesian
- anti
- anti in Vietnamese
- chống
Examples of anti in a sentence
- According to anti‑haecceitism, facts about particular things are modally fixed by qualitative matters.
- Histidine was extensively degraded by rumen micro‐organisms, while tyrosine was the most anti‐degradable AA among the samples.
- Widdershins are movements around the circle in an anti clockwise dance.
Synonyms of anti
Antonyms
Forms of anti
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more anti |
| superlative | most anti |
| Noun | |
| plural | antis |
Origin of anti
Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.
Phrases with anti
Words that rhyme with anti
Questions about anti
- What does anti mean?
- Anti means opposed to something.
- What is anti in Hindi?
- Anti in Hindi is एंटी. See Anti meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is anti?
- Anti can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce anti?
- Anti is pronounced /ˈæn.ti/ (UK).
Words near anti in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti (page history and authors); anti (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anti (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anti (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anti (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anti (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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