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anti- or ant-
pref.
1.
a. Opposite: antimere.
b. Opposing; against: antiapartheid.
c. Counteracting; neutralizing: antacid.
d. Destroying: antiaircraft.
2.
a. Inverse: antilogarithm.
b. Displaying opposite characteristics: antihero.

[Greek, from anti, opposite; see ant- in Indo-European roots.]

anti-
prefix
1. against or opposed to: antiwar
2. opposite to: anticlimax
3. counteracting or neutralizing: antifreeze [Greek]

anti-
A prefix whose basic meaning is "against." It is used to form adjectives that mean "counteracting" (such as antiseptic, preventing infection). It is also used to form nouns referring to substances that counteract other substances (such as antihistamine, a substance counteracting histamine), and nouns meaning "something that displays opposite, reverse, or inverse characteristics of something else" (such as anticyclone, a storm that circulates in the opposite direction from a cyclone). Before a vowel it becomes ant-, as in antacid.
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Italian anti- [ˈæntɪ] prefixanti...

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In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti- slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative.
She brought him the anti- tobacco remedy, purchased out of her glove money, and in a few days forgot all about it.
Class hatred is anti-social, and, it seems to me, anti- socialistic.
 
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