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antiracial

antiracial is the alternative form of anti-racial.

Meaning of anti-racial

Adjective

anti-racial (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.
    • To be clear, to reiterate: I am suggesting that in the wake of whatever nominal successes, antiracist struggle gave way in each instance to anti-racial commitments at the expense of antiracist effects and ongoing struggle.2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, →ISBN

Origin of antiracial

From anti- + racial.

Words formed from antiracial

Questions about antiracial

What is antiracial the alternative form of?
Antiracial is the alternative form of anti-racial.

Words near antiracial in the dictionary

  1. antirabic
  2. antirabies
  3. antirachitic
  4. antirachitically
  5. antirachitics
  6. antiracial
  7. antiracialism
  8. antiracialize
  9. antiracing
  10. antiracism
  11. antiracisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antiracial (page history and authors); anti-racial (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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