antigovernment
/ˌæntiɡˈʌvɚmənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.90 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Opposed to a government currently in power.
adj
noun
A government set up to oppose another government.
Example Sentences
- "Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital."
- "And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics."
- "They have an antigovernment philosophy."
- "This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats."
- "Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says."
- "It is tempting to see these vacancies through the feature-not-a-bug lens of the Republican Party’s antigovernment politics. If a party doesn’t care about governing, why would it care that the government isn’t functioning?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō)bor. Latin gubernāre Old French governer Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French governementbor. Middle English governement English government English antigovernment From anti- + government.
Inflected Forms
more antigovernment (comparative)
most antigovernment (superlative)
anti-government (alternative)
antigovernments (plural)