Xenophobic

Quick meaning: Xenophobic is an adjective meaning Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

Meaning

Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

More Meanings

1. A xenophobe.

Example Sentences

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?

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.”

Word Forms

• xenophobics

Synonyms for xenophobic

Depending on context, synonyms include xenophobous.

Antonyms for xenophobic

Common opposites include xenophilic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afraid, xenophobia, racist, xenophobes, xenophobous, exophobic.

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