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anticar

anticar adjective: opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles.

Adjective

anticar (comparative more anticar, superlative most anticar)

  1. Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
    • But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader
    • But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

anticar (plural anticars)

  1. An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
    • He considered the Falcon an anticar. He thought it served the puritan bias of the man who made it more than the needs of the customers or the company.1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning, page 362
    • It was a virtual anticar.2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times

Forms of anticar

Adjective
comparativemore anticar
superlativemost anticar
Noun
pluralanticars

Origin of anticar

From anti- + car.

Questions about anticar

What does anticar mean?
Anticar means opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles.
What part of speech is anticar?
Anticar can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anticar in the dictionary

  1. anticapitalistic
  2. anticapitalists
  3. anticapsid
  4. anticapsular
  5. anticaptivity
  6. anticar
  7. anticarbohydrate
  8. anticarbon
  9. anticarcinogen
  10. anticarcinogenesis
  11. anticarcinogenic

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