Word.ws English Dictionary

antitextual

antitextual adjective: opposing a text or textual conventions.

Adjective

antitextual (comparative more antitextual, superlative most antitextual)

  1. Opposing a text or textual conventions.
    • Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual. Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes[…]1988, Shari Benstock, The private self, page 140
    • The advent of Zen to a large extent functions as an antistructural, antitextual movement[…]1994, Steven Heine, Dōgen and the Kōan tradition, page 177

Forms of antitextual

comparativemore antitextual
superlativemost antitextual

Origin of antitextual

From anti- + textual.

Questions about antitextual

What does antitextual mean?
Antitextual means opposing a text or textual conventions.
What part of speech is antitextual?
Antitextual is an adjective.

Words near antitextual in the dictionary

  1. antiterrorist
  2. antiterrorists
  3. antitesting
  4. antitetanic
  5. antitetanus
  6. antitextual
  7. antithalian
  8. antitheater
  9. antitheatre
  10. antitheatrical
  11. antitheatricality

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: antitextual (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “antitextual.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/antitextual. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.