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anticivil

anticivil is the alternative form of anti-civil.

Meaning of anti-civil

Adjective

anti-civil (comparative more anti-civil, superlative most anti-civil)

  1. (rare) Uncivil(ised) and in opposition to civil society; opposed to or lacking the features of civil society (for example, opposing or simply lacking civil liberties).
    • … to see the Antonines as they really were;—one may concede that the point of view from which Christianity appeared something anti-civil and anti-social, …1905-1909, Matthew Arnold, Essays

Forms of anticivil

comparativemore anticivil
superlativemost anticivil

Questions about anticivil

What is anticivil the alternative form of?
Anticivil is the alternative form of anti-civil.

Words near anticivil in the dictionary

  1. anticitizenship
  2. anticitrullinated
  3. anticitrulline
  4. anticity
  5. anticivic
  6. anticivil
  7. anticivilian
  8. anticivilisational
  9. anticivilization
  10. anticivilizational
  11. anticivism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anticivil (page history and authors); anti-civil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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