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antiurban

antiurban adjective: showing a negative view of cities or city life.

Adjective

antiurban (not comparable)

  1. Showing a negative view of cities or city life
    • When I ask why so much of the humor on National Public Radio is antiurban, Kessler responds with one of Ian Shoales's most quoted lines: "If the city were a nice place to live, nobody would want to live there.1988 July 15, Lawrence Rand, “Funny Business: an entire evening with Ian Shoales”, in Chicago Reader
    • The District One headquarters of the Illinois Department of Transportation is about as antiurban as a building can get.1996 September 6, Harold Henderson, “Up Against the Sprawl”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of antiurban

From anti- + urban.

Questions about antiurban

What does antiurban mean?
Antiurban means showing a negative view of cities or city life.
What part of speech is antiurban?
Antiurban is an adjective.

Words near antiurban in the dictionary

  1. antiuniversalists
  2. antiuniverse
  3. antiuniverses
  4. antiuniversity
  5. antiup
  6. antiurban
  7. antiurbanization
  8. antiurealytic
  9. antiurease
  10. antiureolytic
  11. antiurolithiasic

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