antisocialadjective
uk/ˌæn.tiˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/-t̬iˈsoʊ-/C1 harmful to society:
antisocial behaviour
Increasingly, smoking is regarded as an antisocial habit.
C1 often avoiding spending time with other people:
I hope they won't think I'm antisocial if I don't join them in the bar.
More examples
- Almost overnight, that sweet little child had turned into an antisocial monster.
- There's a problem of antisocial behaviour among teenagers in the town.
- They have very antisocial neighbours who play music all night and leave rubbish everywhere.
- Sport and other clubs keep young people from becoming involved in vandalism and other antisocial activities.
- Surely religion ought to prevent people behaving in an antisocial and immoral way?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- asocial
- austere
- belligerent
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- impersonal
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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Morality and rules of behaviour
antisocially
adverb usuk/-i/