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antiholiday

antiholiday adjective: opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.

Adjective

antiholiday (comparative more antiholiday, superlative most antiholiday)

  1. Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.
    • Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.1993 February 12, Jack Helbig, “Hellcab”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

antiholiday (plural antiholidays)

  1. A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal or regular holidays.
    • The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "2002 December 20, Douglas Wolk, “What's Left?”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of antiholiday

Adjective
comparativemore antiholiday
superlativemost antiholiday
Noun
pluralantiholidays

Origin of antiholiday

From anti- + holiday.

Questions about antiholiday

What does antiholiday mean?
Antiholiday means opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.
What part of speech is antiholiday?
Antiholiday can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiholiday in the dictionary

  1. antihistories
  2. antihistory
  3. antiholdup
  4. antihole
  5. antiholes
  6. antiholiday
  7. antiholidays
  8. antiholin
  9. antiholins
  10. antiholism
  11. antiholistic

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