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anticure

anticure is the alternative spelling of anti-cure.

Meaning of anti-cure

Adjective

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

  1. Opposed to a cure, especially where the condition being cured may be regarded as an acceptable alternative state of being.
    • This is particularly true in the area of medical technology, where being anti-technology is equated with being anti-health and anti-cure.1993, Janine Morgall Traulsen, Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective

Forms of anticure

comparativemore anticure
superlativemost anticure

Questions about anticure

What is anticure the alternative spelling of?
Anticure is the alternative spelling of anti-cure.

Words near anticure in the dictionary

  1. anticultural
  2. anticulturally
  3. anticulture
  4. anticultures
  5. anticurare
  6. anticure
  7. anticurfew
  8. anticurvature
  9. anticushitism
  10. anticyanobacterial
  11. anticybersquatting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anticure (page history and authors); anti-cure (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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