anticar

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English

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ car.

Adjective

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anticar (comparative more anticar, superlative most anticar)

  1. Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
    • 1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.
    • 2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.

Noun

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anticar (plural anticars)

  1. An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
    • 1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning[3], page 362:
      He considered the Falcon an anticar. He thought it served the puritan bias of the man who made it more than the needs of the customers or the company.
    • 2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times[4]:
      It was a virtual anticar.

Anagrams

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French antiquaire.

Noun

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anticar m (plural anticari)

  1. antiquarian

Declension

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