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prolife

prolife is the alternative form of pro-life.

Meaning of pro-life

Adjective

pro-life (comparative more pro-life, superlative most pro-life)

  1. (US) Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
    • They were pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the life or health of the mother.
    Synonyms:
    anti-abortion
  2. (specifically) Opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.
  3. (specifically) Opposed to the legalization of capital punishment.
  4. (specifically) Opposed to suicide.
    • Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.2016, Jennings Brown, The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum

Forms of prolife

comparativemore prolife
superlativemost prolife

Questions about prolife

What is prolife the alternative form of?
Prolife is the alternative form of pro-life.

Words near prolife in the dictionary

  1. prolibrigenal
  2. prolicide
  3. prolicides
  4. prolidase
  5. prolidases
  6. prolife
  7. prolifer
  8. proliferant
  9. proliferants
  10. proliferate
  11. proliferated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prolife (page history and authors); pro-life (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.

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