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antiknowledge

antiknowledge adjective: opposing knowledge.

Adjective

antiknowledge (comparative more antiknowledge, superlative most antiknowledge)

  1. Opposing knowledge.
    • It is not too much to say that an antiknowledge attitude is the defining element in the worldview of many early-childhood educators and reformers.1996, Eric Donald Hirsch, The schools we need and why we don't have them, page 54

Forms of antiknowledge

comparativemore antiknowledge
superlativemost antiknowledge

Origin of antiknowledge

From anti- + knowledge.

Questions about antiknowledge

What does antiknowledge mean?
Antiknowledge means opposing knowledge.
What part of speech is antiknowledge?
Antiknowledge is an adjective.

Words near antiknowledge in the dictionary

  1. antikissing
  2. antiklan
  3. antiknock
  4. antiknocking
  5. antiknocks
  6. antiknowledge
  7. Antikythera
  8. antilabor
  9. antilabour
  10. antilambda
  11. antilambdas

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