anti-

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (anti, “against”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /æntiː/
• (US) IPA: /æntiː/, /æntaɪ/

Prefix

anti-

1. Against, hostile to.

   antiabortion

2. Opposite of, reverse.

   anticlockwise

3. Counteracting, neutralizing.

   antibacterial

4. Related to antiparticles.

   antimatter, antiatom

Usage notes

• Anti- should not be confused with ante-, which is a prefix of Latin origin meaning before. (However, anti- does exist as a variant spelling of ante- in some borrowed words, such as anticipate and antipasto, but this spelling cannot be used to coin English words.)
• Anti- sometimes becomes ant- before words beginning in a vowel.

  antacid

Antonyms

• (against, hostile to): pro-

Derived terms

[+] English words prefixed with anti-

Translations

anti-

Arabic: ضد (ar) (Didd), نقيض (ar) (naqiiD), مضاد (ar) (muDaadd) Chinese: Mandarin: 反- (cmn) (fǎn-), 抗 (cmn) (kàng), 非 (cmn) (fēi), 反對 (cmn), 反对 (cmn) (fǎnduì) French: anti- (fr) German: anti- (de) Greek: αντι- (el) (anti-) Ido: anti- (io) Italian: anti- (it)

Japanese: 反- (ja) (はん-, han-), 非 (ja) (ひ, hi), 逆 (ja) (ぎゃく, gyaku), 反対 (ja) (はんたい, hantai) Korean: 안티 (ko) (anti), 반- (ko) (ban-) (反- (ko)) Latvian: pret- (lv), anti- (lv) Polish: anty- (pl) Portuguese: anti- (pt) Romanian: anti- (ro), contra- (ro) Russian: противо- (ru) (prótivo-, protivo-), анти- (ru) (ánti-, anti-) Spanish: anti- (es), contra- (es) Vietnamese: chống (vi)

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Armenian: հակա- (hy) (haka-) Czech: proti- Finnish: anti-, epä-, vasta-

Hungarian: ellen-, -ellenes, elleni, anti- Norwegian: anti- (no)

See also

• anti
• contra-
• counter-
• ob-

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Finnish

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

[+] Finnish words prefixed with anti-

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Ido

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

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Italian

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-
2. ante-

Derived terms

• See Category:Italian words prefixed with anti-

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (anti, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti

Derived terms

• anti-aldring

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (anti, “against”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA: /'ɐ̃ti/
• (Brazil) IPA: 'ɐ̃tʃi/, IPA: 'ɐ̃tʃ/

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Category Portuguese words prefixed with anti- not found

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (anti, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. ant-; against, opposite

Derived terms

[+] Spanish words prefixed with anti-