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antiabortion

antiabortion adjective: opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

Adjective

antiabortion (comparative more antiabortion, superlative most antiabortion)

  1. Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
    • Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime
    • The news reporters tell us that conservatives are antiabortion, anti–gun control, antidiversity, antienvironment, antieverything.2001, Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, page 182

Synonyms of antiabortion

Forms of antiabortion

comparativemore antiabortion
superlativemost antiabortion
alternative formanti-abortion

Origin of antiabortion

From anti- + abortion.

Words formed from antiabortion

Questions about antiabortion

What does antiabortion mean?
Antiabortion means opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
What part of speech is antiabortion?
Antiabortion is an adjective.

Words near antiabortion in the dictionary

  1. antiabolitionism
  2. antiabolitionist
  3. antiabolitionists
  4. antiabortifacient
  5. antiabortifacients
  6. antiabortion
  7. antiabortionism
  8. antiabortionist
  9. antiabortionists
  10. antiabortive
  11. antiabrasion

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