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antimaternal

antimaternal adjective: having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity.

Adjective

antimaternal (comparative more antimaternal, superlative most antimaternal)

  1. Having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity
    • The eponymous "Unnatural Mother," for one, certainly seems to show an antimaternal rather than a maternal reflex when she rapidly and automatically acts to save her town rather than her own child.2007, Jill Rudd, Val Gough, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer, →ISBN, page 207
  2. Pertaining to an immune response against the mother
    • an antimaternal antibody

Forms of antimaternal

comparativemore antimaternal
superlativemost antimaternal

Origin of antimaternal

From anti- + maternal.

Questions about antimaternal

What does antimaternal mean?
Antimaternal means having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity.
What part of speech is antimaternal?
Antimaternal is an adjective.

Words near antimaternal in the dictionary

  1. antimaterialism
  2. antimaterialist
  3. antimaterialistic
  4. antimaterialists
  5. antimateriel
  6. antimaternal
  7. antimatrimonial
  8. antimatrimonialist
  9. antimatrimonialists
  10. antimatroid
  11. antimatroidal

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