antisemitic

Or an·ti-Se·mit·ic

[an-tee-suh-mit-ik, an-tahy‐]

adjective

1. prejudiced or hostile toward Jews: Critics have cited the candidate’s antisemitic comments.

   They had come to reject the antisemitic views of their grandparents’ generation.

   Critics have cited the candidate’s antisemitic comments.

Spelling Note

See antisemitism ( def. ).

Other Word Forms

• antisemitically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of antisemitic¹

First recorded in 1880–85; anti- ( def. ) + Semitic ( def. )

Example Sentences

But he added: "I never saw Farage being openly racist, antisemitic towards any individual…I'd be disappointed because I never thought of him as an overt racist."

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Epstein kind of hits all of these, that there’s this elite cabal that’s orchestrating things that ultimately are against the interests of we the people, with a sort of antisemitic strain to this.

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Wray’s deputy also angered the right when he said that comments from the shooter’s social media accounts “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.”

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Dreyfus was put on trial amid a virulent antisemitic press campaign.

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Protesters shouted antisemitic slogans and brandished a banner reading: "Abolish the Jewish lobby" in the November 8 rally, according to television images and media reports.

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