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countercultural

American  
[kaun-ter-kuhl-cher-uhl] / ˌkaʊn tərˈkʌl tʃər əl /

adjective

  1. challenging or resisting the established values, customs, or norms of a culture.


Example Sentences

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It remained, however, a countercultural pursuit to be played in liminal, seedy spaces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

You can entertain crypto as part of the world financial system, or you can maintain the pretense that crypto is the countercultural beacon of freedom that its earliest boosters claimed it would be.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025

From the jump, "SNL" branded itself as something countercultural.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

While it seems at odds with his devout, peanut-farming reputation, Carter’s countercultural credibility helped build the coalition that won him the White House.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

But their organisation model was much more complex and potentially far-reaching than those of their countercultural predecessors.

From Open Source Democracy by Rushkoff, Douglas