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antistatus

antistatus adjective: against status (position or standing).

Adjective

antistatus (not comparable)

  1. Against status (position or standing).
    • These people who affect the antistatus symbols, the fetishes of the studied unkempt look and the torn jeans...1970, Adolph Baker, Modern physics and antiphysics
    • His own fiscal conservatism, he says, is evident in the antistatus cars in the driveway.2007 January 5, Robin Finn, “A Downstate Deal Maker as Driven as His Boss”, in New York Times

Origin of antistatus

From anti- + status.

Questions about antistatus

What does antistatus mean?
Antistatus means against status (position or standing).
What part of speech is antistatus?
Antistatus is an adjective.

Words near antistatus in the dictionary

  1. antistatics
  2. antistatism
  3. antistatist
  4. antistatists
  5. antistats
  6. antistatus
  7. antistealth
  8. antisteatosic
  9. antisteatotic
  10. antisteering
  11. antisterility

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