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anti

adjectivenounprepositionattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈæn.ti//
  • United States//ˈæn.taɪ//

Opposed to something.

adjective

  1. 1

    Opposed to something.

  2. 2

    That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

Etymology

Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.

noun

  1. 1

    A person opposed to a concept or principle.

    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.

    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. 2

    slangA fan who objects to a particular creator, franchise, fandom, character, ship, etc., especially on moral or sociopolitical grounds.

    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.

    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.

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

preposition

  1. 1

    Variant of anti-rareAlternative form of anti-.

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

Forms

plural
antis
comparative
more anti
superlative
most anti
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).