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antibeauty

antibeauty adjective: opposed to beauty.

Adjective

antibeauty (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to beauty.
    • However, the American sensibility was less caught up in Angst and unnaturalness; it rejected the antibeauty implication of the Europeans.1982, Jack Burnham, Beyond modern sculpture
    • Related to this threat of a career is the idea, again reinforced by conservatives, that feminists are somehow antibeauty and/or ugly.2007, Kelly Fisher Lowe, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, page 191
  2. Opposed to societal norms and beauty standards.
  3. A different form of beauty.
  4. (dated) Being or pertaining to an anti-bottom quark (formerly called anti-beauty quark).

Forms of antibeauty

alternative formanti-beauty

Origin of antibeauty

From anti- + beauty.

Questions about antibeauty

What does antibeauty mean?
Antibeauty means opposed to beauty.
What part of speech is antibeauty?
Antibeauty is an adjective.

Words near antibeauty in the dictionary

  1. antibaseball
  2. antibasketball
  3. antibathing
  4. antibattery
  5. antibear
  6. antibeauty
  7. antibechic
  8. antibechics
  9. antibedbug
  10. antibee
  11. antibeer

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