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antifootball

antifootball adjective: opposing (any of the sports called) football. Also the alternative form of anti-football.

Adjective

antifootball (comparative more antifootball, superlative most antifootball)

  1. Opposing (any of the sports called) football.
    • Some faculty members read into this action of a nearby fellow Southland member a close parallel to the North Texas situation, and there was a fairly sizable antifootball feeling within the faculty from that time forward.2002, James Lloyd Rogers, The story of North Texas, page 620

Also used as

antifootball is also the alternative form of anti-football.

Forms of antifootball

comparativemore antifootball
superlativemost antifootball

Origin of antifootball

From anti- + football.

Questions about antifootball

What does antifootball mean?
Antifootball means opposing (any of the sports called) football.
What part of speech is antifootball?
Antifootball is an adjective.

Words near antifootball in the dictionary

  1. antifolates
  2. antifolding
  3. antifolic
  4. antifolk
  5. antifood
  6. antifootball
  7. antiforal
  8. antiforeclosure
  9. antiforeign
  10. antiforeigner
  11. antiforeignism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antifootball (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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