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anticommercial

anticommercial adjective: opposed to commercialism.

Adjective

anticommercial (comparative more anticommercial, superlative most anticommercial)

  1. Opposed to commercialism
    • Shaped by a strongly anticommercial ideology, it places too much emphasis on the division between giving and selling.2007 January 28, Virginia Postrel, “Grim Harvest”, in New York Times

Forms of anticommercial

comparativemore anticommercial
superlativemost anticommercial

Origin of anticommercial

From anti- + commercial.

Words formed from anticommercial

Questions about anticommercial

What does anticommercial mean?
Anticommercial means opposed to commercialism.
What part of speech is anticommercial?
Anticommercial is an adjective.

Words near anticommercial in the dictionary

  1. anticomedy
  2. anticomic
  3. anticommandeering
  4. anticommensal
  5. anticommerce
  6. anticommercial
  7. anticommercialism
  8. anticommercialization
  9. anticommie
  10. anticommies
  11. anticommission

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