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anticounseling

anticounseling adjective: opposing counseling.

Adjective

anticounseling (comparative more anticounseling, superlative most anticounseling)

  1. Opposing counseling.
    • You have realized for some time that Charles Underwood, a general science teacher at your school, is anticounseling. He has never referred a student to you and you've heard that he's been discouraging other teachers […]1972, Robert D. Myrick, Joe Wittmer, School Counseling: Problems and Methods
    • Though one might find some exceptions, so-called psychology bashers are not anticounseling. Most of them work to develop and practice loving and effective care for souls as the alternative to secular or quasi-secular psychotherapy.2001, Mark R. McMinn, Timothy R. Phillips, Care for the Soul

Forms of anticounseling

comparativemore anticounseling
superlativemost anticounseling

Origin of anticounseling

From anti- + counseling.

Questions about anticounseling

What does anticounseling mean?
Anticounseling means opposing counseling.
What part of speech is anticounseling?
Anticounseling is an adjective.

Words near anticounseling in the dictionary

  1. Anticosti
  2. anticotunnite
  3. anticough
  4. anticouncil
  5. anticouncils
  6. anticounseling
  7. anticounter
  8. anticounterfeit
  9. anticounterfeiting
  10. anticountermeasure
  11. anticountermeasures

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