anti-Americanadj.
Hostile to the interests of the United States, opposed to Americans.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [adjective] > specific nations
anti-Gallic1756
anti-Gallican1765
anti-American1773
anti-Britisha1845
Anglophobic1846
Anglophobian1847
Russophobist1867
Russophobic1875
Francophobe1890
Germanophobe1891
Anglophobiac1894
Anglophobe1901
Sinophobic1948
mishellenic1958
1773 in Amer. Speech (1945) 20 269 The anti-American doctrine of the parliament's right in all cases.
1838 J. S. Buckingham Amer. (1841) I. ix. 173 Now our young men are rogues and fops, with extravagant anti-American notions.
1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces xi. 301 Not only did he regard it [sc. the communication] as fresh in tone, but he regarded it as anti-American in substance..not merely against the Monroe Doctrine, but against the freedom of the seas.
1963 Guardian 21 Feb. 16/7 The Labour Party—which is anti-American without being pro-European.
Derivatives
anti-Aˈmericanism n. a spirit of hostility towards Americans.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [noun] > specific nations
Anglophobia1793
Gallophobia1803
anti-Gallicanism1805
Scotophobia1828
Russophobia1836
anti-Americanism1844
Germanophobia1852
Francophobia1870
Russophobism1875
Sinophobia1876
Teutophobia1876
Judaeophobia1881
Teutonophobia1886
Germophobia1887
Teutophobism1904
anti-Britishism1909
Sovietophobia1955
1844 P. Hone Diary (1889) II. 238 Most of them seem to have escaped the foppery of foreign manners and the bad taste of anti-Americanism.
1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 167/1 It is not anti-Americanism to feel that now, more than ever, we need to cultivate our own idiom and qualities.
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adj.1773