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Celtophobic

Celtophobic adjective: despising Celtic peoples.

Adjective

Celtophobic (comparative more Celtophobic, superlative most Celtophobic)

  1. Despising Celtic peoples.
    • Thus we find the Duke of Argyll, who might have been supposed to be committed to the rejection of the Celtophobic view of the Irish question, whether or not he considers himself a Celt, and who in his work on Irish Nationalism makes at times a profession of disclaiming any assumption as to race...1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology

Forms of Celtophobic

comparativemore Celtophobic
superlativemost Celtophobic

Origin of Celtophobic

From Celtophobia + -ic. Attested since the 19th century.

Questions about Celtophobic

What does Celtophobic mean?
Celtophobic means despising Celtic peoples.
What part of speech is Celtophobic?
Celtophobic is an adjective.

Words near Celtophobic in the dictionary

  1. Celtophiles
  2. Celtophils
  3. Celtophobe
  4. Celtophobes
  5. Celtophobia
  6. Celtophobic
  7. celts
  8. celtuce
  9. celtuces
  10. celure
  11. celures

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