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antisugar

antisugar adjective: opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.

Adjective

antisugar (comparative more antisugar, superlative most antisugar)

  1. Opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.
    • The chief topics of discussion were the importance of dental work in public schools, the antisugar campaign, the gospel of the clean mouth and the relation of systemic diseases to infected teeth.1920, “Medical News”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 74, page 956
    • Not surprisingly, perhaps, an antisugar school of medicine arose anew, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.1986, Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
  2. Countering the effects of sugar in mammalian metabolism.
    • In another approach, antiglobulin neutralization was carried out by incubating the antiglobulin reagents directly with sugar-coated erythrocytes that had been sensitized with antisugar antibodies.1984, P Lalezari, AF Jiang, M Kumar, I Lalezari, “Carbohydrate‐Specific Antibodies in Normal Human Sera: I. Characterization of Specificity for β‐D‐Glucose”, in Vox sanguinis, Wiley Online Library
    • Like many parents, I would welcome an antiwhining vaccine that causes no physical harm to my child but makes the act of whining more unpleasant to her than to me. An antisugar vaccine would also be nice, eliminating daily demands for ice cream and other desserts2013, EA Feldman, “Shots for tots?”, in Hastings Center Report, Wiley Online Library

Noun

antisugar

  1. A substance that reacts readily to consume sugars.
    • As one special example the author states that alcohol is an antisugar having calorigenic value but at the same time an antidynamic action.1954, Archivos latinoamericanos de nutrición, volume 5, page 405

Examples of antisugar in a sentence

  • That Joan is not such an antisugar fascist that she'd embarrass Haley in front of the Highlands and refuse to allow their delicious desserts into the house.2008, Liz Ruckdeschel, Sara James, What If . . . Your Past Came Back to Haunt You, page 19:
  • We synthesized the new compound 4-((E)-((4-((E)-phenyldiazenyl)phenyl)imino)methyl)benzoic acid (E-PABA) that it ^([sic]) has antisugar and antibacterial activities2017, M Sheikhi, S Shahab, L Filippovich, et al., “Interaction between new synthesized derivative of (E, E)-azomethines and BN (6, 6-7)...

Forms of antisugar

comparativemore antisugar
superlativemost antisugar

Origin of antisugar

From anti- + sugar.

Questions about antisugar

What does antisugar mean?
Antisugar means opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.
How do you use antisugar in a sentence?
That Joan is not such an antisugar fascist that she'd embarrass Haley in front of the Highlands and refuse to allow their delicious desserts into the house.
What part of speech is antisugar?
Antisugar can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antisugar in the dictionary

  1. antisuffragette
  2. antisuffragettes
  3. antisuffragism
  4. antisuffragist
  5. antisuffragists
  6. antisugar
  7. antisuicidal
  8. antisuicide
  9. antisuit
  10. antisun
  11. antisuns

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