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

Example Sentences

Members are split over a range of policy issues, and the group's richest member, the United States, has said it will boycott the Johannesburg summit, accusing South Africa's agenda of being anti-American.

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The US has labelled South Africa's theme of "Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability" as "anti-American".

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The Cold War is over but the appetite for power among anti-American “nonaligned” ideologues is as it ever was.

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The president’s arrogation of control over the Kennedy Center, on the defensible grounds that its programs are “woke” and otherwise anti-American, has occasioned an unofficial boycott.

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He’s an immigrant from a complicated ethnic background, and his opponents accuse him of being unpatriotic, anti-American, a Communist agent and a supporter of overseas terrorist movements.

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