Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anticivic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-civic
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

In opposition to citizenship.

adj

Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.

Example Sentences

"To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ..."
"Under television's relentlessly negative portrayal of events, the civic culture of optimism, idealism, rationalism, and nationalism was gradually giving way to an anticivic culture of distrust, a sense of political inefficacy, ..."
"Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement."

Etymology

From anti- + civic.

Inflected Forms

more anticivic (comparative) most anticivic (superlative)

Antonyms

pro-civic

Questions

What does anticivic mean?: In opposition to citizenship.
Where does anticivic come from?: From anti- + civic.

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