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Indophobic

Indophobic adjective: exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.

Adjective

Indophobic (not comparable)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.
    • The extreme Indophobic discomfort with the connection of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin was exemplified by the conviction of the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, who, without knowing a word of the language, proposed that Sanskrit was not a cognate of Greek, it was Greek.2001, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
    • Even the Hindus have more knowledge than us in some matters of astronomy and mathematics'—a virtually unprecedented admission for the often Indophobic Abdul Lateef.2002, William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, Penguin, →ISBN, page 95

Origin of Indophobic

From Indo- + -phobic.

Questions about Indophobic

What does Indophobic mean?
Indophobic means exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.
What part of speech is Indophobic?
Indophobic is an adjective.

Words near Indophobic in the dictionary

  1. Indophilist
  2. Indophilists
  3. Indophobe
  4. Indophobes
  5. Indophobia
  6. Indophobic
  7. Indopop
  8. indoprofen
  9. indoramin
  10. Indore
  11. indorenate

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