anti

 

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Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ti/
• Rhymes: -ænti
• Homophone: auntie (in some accents)

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anti (comparative more anti, superlative most anti)

1. Opposed to something.
2. (physical chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

• (chemistry): syn

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anti (plural antis)

1. A person opposed to a concept or principle.

   Synonyms: opponent, opposer

   • 2002, Thomas Jablonsky, “Female Opposition: The Anti-Suffrage Campaign”, in Jean H. Baker, editor, Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited (Viewpoints on American culture), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121:

     On one occasion, franchise supporters accused antis of dumping lemons, wet sponges, rolls of ticker tape, bags of water, and garbage pails on innocent suffrage supporters parading outside the anti-suffrage offices.

   • 2012, H. Paul Thompson, Jr., A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865–1887, page 222:

     Antis jumped on this announcement, calling it vote buying and indicative of the hypocrisy of prohibitionists who talked incessantly in the first election about the immorality of the antis' vote-buying efforts.

2. (fandom slang, often derogatory) A fan who objects to a particular creator, franchise, fandom, character, ship, etc., especially on moral or sociopolitical grounds.

   Synonyms: fancop, fandomentalist, fandom Frollo, fanpol, fanti, Frollo

   • 2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform, and Community in an Online Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Denver, page 94:

     While I did not directly analyze how the antis define feminism, it appears that they believe Sarah J Maas as an author is a white feminist and therefore unable to write anything feminist.

   • 2019, Emily E. Roach, "Supernatural: Wincest and Dean Winchester's Bisexual Panic", in "From Canon to Politics: Queerbaiting and The CW's Supergirl", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities (ed. Joseph Brennan), page 89:

     Other fans or viewers are thus not coded as fans but instead positioned as either homophobic, angry "antis" (even if they ship Johnlock or other queer ships) or as the outsider "casuals" who aren't dedicated or smart or invested enough to properly interpret Sherlock.

   • 2021, Rebecca Williams, A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics‎^[1], page 72:

     The VLD fandom especially has cultivated a definition of antis as ones against a moral or societal ill (e.g., pedophilia, incest).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anti.

• pro

anti

1. (rare) Alternative form of anti-
   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 21:

     I do not consider myself either a twitcher or an expert. Neither am I anti twitching.

• anti-

• nait, Atin, ain't, aniṭ, Tian, tain, tian, tina, Tani, aint, Tain, TINA, -itan, NAIT, Tina

From Proto-Finnic *anti, equivalent to antaa +‎ -i. Cognate with Estonian and.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnti/, [ˈɑ̝n̪t̪i]
• Rhymes: -ɑnti
• Hyphenation^(key): an‧ti

anti

1. (finance) offering, issue (of shares, bonds etc).
2. the achieved outcome or result (of a meeting etc.)

• “anti”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• nait, tain, tina

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anti (A·chik)

1. week
2. market

• IPA^(key): [antiəʔ]
• Hyphenation: an‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

anti

1. to wait

Borrowed from English anti, from conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ti/
• Rhymes: -ti
• Hyphenation: an‧ti

anti

1. anti (opposed to something)

• anti-

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ti/
• Rhymes: -anti
• Hyphenation: àn‧ti

anti (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of ante (all senses)
   • 13th century, Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (Gianfranco Contini, Poeti del Duecento, Riccardo Ricciardi (1960), vol. 2, p.461):

     [...] né fe’ amor anti che gentil core
     né gentil core anti ch’amor, natura: [...]

     [...] neither before the gentle heart was Love
     nor Love ere gentle heart by Nature made: [...]

   • 1282, Restoro d'Arezzo, La composizione del mondo colle sue cascioni, Accademia della Crusca, published 1976, page 174:

     [...] sapemo bene che l'acqua non se stregne e ghiacia e·lloco caldo, anti se ghiacia e·lloco là o' non pò lo sole, molto fredissimo [...]

     [...] we know well that water does not contract and freeze in a hot place, rather it freezes in a very cold place, where the Sun cannot [reach] [...]

• Tina, nati, tina

añti

1. vocative singular of añtis (“bosom”)

• ande, ende, endi, enti, inti, indi, int, inte, unta, unte, unti

• IPA^(key): /anti/

anti

1. and

1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

• Hyphenation: an‧ti

anti (invariable)

1. (chemistry) anti (that has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°)

From Proto-Quechuan [Term?]

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.tɪ/

anti

1. eastern

anti

1. (arcaic) the eastern region, from the perspective of Cuzco.
2. (arcaic) the Amazonian foothills.
3. (arcaic) an inhabitan of the Amazonian foothills.
4. east

(compass points)

	chincha
kunti		anti
	urin

• intichay

• antis

From anti-.

anti (invariable)

1. anti-, opposing

• “anti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from English aunt.^[1]

anti (ma class, plural maanti)

1. (informal) A form of address to a woman.

   Synonym: sista

From English auntie.

anti

1. aunt (polite term for any woman a generation older than oneself)

From English aunty, auntie.

anti

1. paternal aunt; one's father's sister

Borrowed from English auntie.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈantɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈanti/

anti f (plural antis)

1. aunt

   Synonyms: bopa, modryb

• (gender): ewythr, wncl

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “anti”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Borrowed from English auntie.

IPA^(key): /à.ŋ̀.tí/

àǹtí

1. auntie, a term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.