anti-American

[an-tee-uh-mer-i-kuhn, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. opposed or hostile to the United States of America, its people, its principles, or its policies.

noun

1. an anti-American person.

anti-American

adjective

1. opposed to anything of or relating to the United States of America

Other Word Forms

• anti-Americanism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of anti-American¹

1765–75, in sense “anticolonial”; anti- + American