anti-tennis
anti-tennis adjective: opposing the sport of tennis.
Adjective
anti-tennis (comparative more anti-tennis, superlative most anti-tennis)
- Opposing the sport of tennis.
- Does it surprise anyone else at the fervor of anti-rowing sentiment at many colleges and schools? What's the deal? Jealousy? Are there anti-tennis or anti-baseball pages? People who are passionate about disliking lacrosse?1998 September 12, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: Are Men and Women Different?”, in Independent Rowing News, volume 5, number 15, →ISSN, page 30
- In some areas, tennis fans have struggled to find places to play, discovering their long-held courts suddenly transformed into pickleball havens either temporarily or permanently. It hasn’t helped that some especially avid pickleball fans proudly proclaim that their sport will soon overtake tennis...2022 October 16, Rachel Simon, “In the tennis vs. pickleball showdown, who’s winning?”, in NBC News
Noun
anti-tennis (uncountable)
- A corrupted or unconventional form of tennis.
- Those of you who are perverse enough to have read along so far are my kind of folks, so you’ll know what I mean when I say that at this point, I thought, Cool. Each guy has played a set of anti-tennis and gotten the demons out of his system. So it’s like, okay, I’ve got an idea!2006 June 11, Peter Bodo, “Lost in Translation”, in Tennis
- [Novak] Djokovic, by contrast, plays something like anti-tennis. Although he’s recently improved his serve and his volleys and possesses one of the best drop shots in the game, he is fundamentally a conservative, defensive player.2021 July 22, Park MacDougald, “All hail Novak Djokovic, king of anti-tennis”, in Washington Examiner
Forms of anti-tennis
| comparative | more anti-tennis |
|---|---|
| superlative | most anti-tennis |
| alternative form | antitennis |
Origin of anti-tennis
From anti- + tennis.
Questions about anti-tennis
- What does anti-tennis mean?
- Anti-tennis means opposing the sport of tennis.
- What part of speech is anti-tennis?
- Anti-tennis can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near anti-tennis in the dictionary
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