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countercultural

countercultural adjective: of or pertaining to a counterculture.

Adjective

countercultural (comparative more countercultural, superlative most countercultural)

  1. Of or pertaining to a counterculture.
    • In this respect the tribe was not countercultural but counternatural.2007 June 18, Edward Rothstein, “Postmodern Thoughts, Illuminated by the Practices of a Premodern Tribe”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2022

Forms of countercultural

comparativemore countercultural
superlativemost countercultural

Origin of countercultural

From counter- + cultural or counterculture + -al.

Words formed from countercultural

Questions about countercultural

What does countercultural mean?
Countercultural means of or pertaining to a counterculture.
What part of speech is countercultural?
Countercultural is an adjective.

Words near countercultural in the dictionary

  1. countercuff
  2. countercuffs
  3. countercult
  4. countercultist
  5. countercultists
  6. countercultural
  7. counterculturalism
  8. counterculturalisms
  9. counterculturalist
  10. counterculturalists
  11. counterculturally

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