xenophobic

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

xenophobic (comparative more xenophobic, superlative most xenophobic)

  1. Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
    Synonyms: xenophobous; see also Thesaurus:xenophobic
    • 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus:
      Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses
    • 2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian:
      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.

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Noun

xenophobic (plural xenophobics)

  1. A xenophobe.
    • 2008 April 16, Martin J. Brown, “Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals”, in New York Times:
      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?

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