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antiqueer

antiqueer adjective: opposed to queer (non-heterosexual) people.

Adjective

antiqueer (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to queer (non-heterosexual) people.
    • On the connection between antiqueer and anticommunist hysteria...2005, Thomas Vernon Reed, The Art of Protest
    • The antiqueer brigade of the Muslim Students Association fell apart before my eyes.2005, Irshad Manji, The Trouble with Islam Today
    Synonyms:
    antigay, antifag

Noun

antiqueer (plural antiqueers)

  1. (uncommon) One who is opposed to queer people.
    • Nothing is wrong with pederasty or prostitution; indeed the anti-queers are now using this issue as a grounds of attack. Pretending that Greek love didn't include pederasty and prostitution implicitly concedes that the moralists are right.1986 February 15, Charly Shively, “Erotic Poems from the Greek Anthology [review]”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page B4

Synonyms of antiqueer

Forms of antiqueer

pluralantiqueers

Origin of antiqueer

From anti- + queer.

Questions about antiqueer

What does antiqueer mean?
Antiqueer means opposed to queer (non-heterosexual) people.
What part of speech is antiqueer?
Antiqueer can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiqueer in the dictionary

  1. antique white
  2. antique whites
  3. antiqued
  4. antiquedom
  5. antiqueen
  6. antiqueer
  7. antiquehood
  8. antiquely
  9. antiquencher
  10. antiquenchers
  11. antiqueness

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