Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antiathletic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-tiath-let-ic
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Disliking or opposing athletics.

adj

Unathletic; lacking sporting physique or ability.

adj

unsporting, unsportsmanlike

Example Sentences

"While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary."
"Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness."

Etymology

From anti- + athletic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

more antiathletic (comparative) most antiathletic (superlative)

Questions

What does antiathletic mean?: Disliking or opposing athletics.
Where does antiathletic come from?: From anti- + athletic.

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