Antiholiday
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antiholiday is an adjective meaning Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.
Meaning
Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.
More Meanings
- A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal or regular holidays.
Example Sentences
The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "
Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.
Word Forms
- antiholidays
Related Words
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