antivax

or an·ti-vax

[ an-tee-vaks, an-tahy- ]

adjectiveInformal.

opposed to vaccines and vaccination; antivaccination:antivax parents;the antivax movement.

Origin of antivax

¹

First recorded in 1810–15 as Anti-Vacks (in the sense “persons opposed to vaccination”), in a letter by Edward Jenner); anti- + vax

Sometimes an·ti-vaxx .

Words Nearby antivax

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How to use antivax in a sentence

I did not expect that the Internet would be used to power the antivax movement in such a terrible way.
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