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antiauthority

antiauthority adjective: opposed to authority.

Adjective

antiauthority (comparative more antiauthority, superlative most antiauthority)

  1. Opposed to authority.
    • This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.2021 April 9, “Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community”, in Office of the Director of National Intelligence, page 24
    • Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.2021 April 13, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence community warns of devastating long-term impact of coronavirus pandemic”, in CNN

Forms of antiauthority

comparativemore antiauthority
superlativemost antiauthority

Origin of antiauthority

From anti- + authority.

Questions about antiauthority

What does antiauthority mean?
Antiauthority means opposed to authority.
What part of speech is antiauthority?
Antiauthority is an adjective.

Words near antiauthority in the dictionary

  1. antiausterity
  2. antiauteurist
  3. antiauthoritarian
  4. antiauthoritarianism
  5. antiauthoritarians
  6. antiauthority
  7. antiautistic
  8. antiautocratic
  9. antiautolysin
  10. antiautolysins
  11. antiautomobile

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