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antitea

antitea adjective: opposing tea (the drink).

Adjective

antitea (comparative more antitea, superlative most antitea)

  1. Opposing tea (the drink).
    • The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude.1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders
    • Physicians, recruited to the antitea cause, stated that the drink weakened "the tone of the stomach, and therefore of the whole system, inducing' tremors and spasmodic affections."1989, Page Smith, A new age now begins: a people's history of the American Revolution

Forms of antitea

comparativemore antitea
superlativemost antitea

Origin of antitea

From anti- + tea.

Questions about antitea

What does antitea mean?
Antitea means opposing tea (the drink).
What part of speech is antitea?
Antitea is an adjective.

Words near antitea in the dictionary

  1. Antitaurus
  2. antitaus
  3. antitax
  4. antitaxation
  5. antitaxic
  6. antitea
  7. antitearing
  8. antitechnocratic
  9. antitechnological
  10. antitechnologism
  11. antitechnologist

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