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anticharm

anticharm noun: the opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.

Noun

anticharm (uncountable)

  1. The opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.
    • And yet, just as it made FunHouse look daring, that peculiar Bogosian anticharm managed to turn Talk Radio into an intriguingly nasty, itchy piece of work.1989 September 29, Anthony Adler, “Talk Radio”, in Chicago Reader

Adjective

anticharm (comparative more anticharm, superlative most anticharm)

  1. Of or pertaining to an anti-charm quark.
    • Similarly, any charm quarks produced in the collision have many more partners to choose from; they don't have to run away with an anticharm partner, which causes the number of J/psi mesons to drop. "1999 August 20, David Voss, “PHYSICS:Making the Stuff of the Big Bang”, in Science, volume 285, number 5431, →DOI, pages 1194–1197

Forms of anticharm

comparativemore anticharm
superlativemost anticharm

Origin of anticharm

From anti- + charm.

Questions about anticharm

What does anticharm mean?
Anticharm means the opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.
What part of speech is anticharm?
Anticharm can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near anticharm in the dictionary

  1. antichaos
  2. antichaotic
  3. antichaotropic
  4. anticharities
  5. anticharity
  6. anticharm
  7. antichatter
  8. antichauvinism
  9. antichauvinist
  10. antichauvinists
  11. antichav

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