antivax

Sometimes an·ti-vaxx
Or an·ti-vax

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

adjective

Informal.

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

   antivax parents;

   the antivax movement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antivax¹

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

Example Sentences

“It doesn’t mean I am antivax, it just means I am pro-science.”

From Los Angeles Times

Kennedy’s vaccine committee endorses flu shots — but only if they don’t include an ingredient antivax groups have falsely tied to autism.

From Los Angeles Times

Taylor grew up there in Mullumbimby, a small hamlet in northern New South Wales, and a town she describes as “dirty hippie, no shoes, like antivax, organic food.”

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That includes states in which antivaccination politics reign, such as Florida, where the Republican-appointed surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, has issued antivax recommendations so misleading that he was publicly rebuked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

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Despite Ladapo’s antivax propaganda, 81.4% of Floridians have received at least one shot and 68.6% are considered fully vaccinated.

From Los Angeles Times