xenophobic

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26
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29
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/
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/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/ · /ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bɪk/ · /ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/

Definition of xenophobic

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.
    “Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses”
    “It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.”
    “Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who often spreads xenophobic arguments, has ardently embraced the charge that Democrats are “trying to replace the current electorate – the voters now casting ballots – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.””
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adj

  1. Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.
    “Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses”
    “It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.”
    “Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who often spreads xenophobic arguments, has ardently embraced the charge that Democrats are “trying to replace the current electorate – the voters now casting ballots – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.””

noun

  1. A xenophobe.
    “So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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