antimask
antimask is the obsolete form of antimasque.
Meaning of antimasque
Noun
antimasque (plural antimasques)
Adjective
antimask (not comparable)
- Opposing masks.
- Hassler stated that the Board of Health was not going to be influenced by antimask activists. But making a law is one thing, and enforcing it is something else.1976, Alfred W. Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, 1918, page 112
- Some southern towns and cities made efforts to limit the activities of the Ku Klux Klan with the passage of antimask laws.1999, Bruce Adelson, Brushing back Jim Crow, page 9
- Antonyms:
- promask
Antonyms of antimask
Forms of antimask
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | antimasks |
| Adjective | |
| alternative form | anti-mask |
Origin of antimask
From anti- + mask.
Words formed from antimask
Questions about antimask
- What does antimask mean?
- Antimask means opposing masks.
- What is antimask the obsolete form of?
- Antimask is the obsolete form of antimasque.
- What part of speech is antimask?
- Antimask is an adjective.
Words near antimask in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: antimask (page history and authors); antimasque (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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