antiforeign
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Opposed to foreigners or to what is foreign.
Example Sentences
- "Taken as a whole, however, the riots were anti-foreign, not anti-official. This was dramatically true in the Wu-hsüeh riot of June 5, where two foreigners were killed by an angry mob,⁴⁹ and the I-ch’ang riot of September 2, where responsible officials failed to take action and the collusion of important persons was widely suspected.⁵⁰"
- "With foreigners already wary of investing in Thailand, the last thing the country needed, analysts say, was a new law perceived as antiforeign."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more antiforeign (comparative)
most antiforeign (superlative)