antivaxxer

Or an·ti·vax·er
Or an·ti-vax·xer

[an-tee-vak-ser, an-tahy-]

noun

Informal.

1. a person who distrusts or is against vaccination, often someone who is vocally opposed to vaccines.

   Our doctors are adamant that the antivaxxers overstate the risks of vaccine use, and that they scoff at the risks of disease.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antivaxxer¹

First recorded in 2000–05; antivax + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Here, the musician Annie Hardy stars as Annie, a MAGA, antivaxxer host of a livestream show.

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Alexis Haug believes that one of her stepmother’s “so-called friends” had made screen images of her father’s posts and sent them to Sorry Antivaxxer.

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A website called Sorry Antivaxxer, which catalogues the covid-19 deaths of people who had publicly posted their rejection of the vaccine, had found out about Haug’s father, Ron Munoz.

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Commenters from Sorry Antivaxxer then posted images from the Facebook profile of Munoz’s widow and also left comments about vaccination on her page.

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When her sister began commenting on Sorry Antivaxxer, the site took the comments down, but later put them back online.

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