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antiathletic

antiathletic adjective: disliking or opposing athletics.

Adjective

antiathletic (comparative more antiathletic, superlative most antiathletic)

  1. Disliking or opposing athletics.
    • While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary.2009, Michael Oriard, Bowled Over: Big-time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era
  2. Unathletic; lacking sporting physique or ability.
    • Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness.2000, Beth Cohen, Not the Classical Ideal
  3. unsporting, unsportsmanlike

Forms of antiathletic

comparativemore antiathletic
superlativemost antiathletic

Origin of antiathletic

From anti- + athletic.

Questions about antiathletic

What does antiathletic mean?
Antiathletic means disliking or opposing athletics.
What part of speech is antiathletic?
Antiathletic is an adjective.

Words near antiathletic in the dictionary

  1. antiatheromatic
  2. antiatherosclerosis
  3. antiatherosclerotic
  4. antiatherosclerotics
  5. antiatherothrombotic
  6. antiathletic
  7. antiatom
  8. antiatomic
  9. antiatoms
  10. antiatonement
  11. antiatrophic

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