xenophobic

English

Etymology

xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xenos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phobos, “fear”)

Adjective

xenophobic (comparative more xenophobic, superlative most xenophobic)

1. Suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
   • "Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses" Weekend Argus May 13/14 2006.

Related terms

• xenophobia
• xenophobe

Translations

suffering from xenophobia

• Armenian: այլատյաց (hy) (aylatyacʿ)
• Catalan: xenòfob (ca) m, xenòfoba (ca) f
• Dutch: xenofobisch (nl), xenofoob (nl)
• Esperanto: ksenofobia (eo)
• Finnish: muukalaisvihamielinen (fi), ksenofobinen (fi)
• French: xénophobe (fr)

• German: xenophobisch (de)
• Italian: xenofobo (it)
• Russian: ксенофобский (ru) (ksenofóbskij)
• Slovak: xénofóbický m, xénofóbická f, xénofóbické n
• Spanish: xenófobo (es) m

Noun

xenophobic (plural xenophobics)

1. A xenophobe.
   • 2008 April 16, “Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals”, New York Times:

     So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?

Translations

xenophobe — see xenophobe

See also

• racist