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anti-Semitic

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌæntiːsəˈmɪtɪk/
  • General-American: /ˌæntiːsəˈmɪtɪk/
  • General-American: /ˌæntiːsəˈmɛtɪk/
  • General-American: /ˌæntaɪ-/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪtɪk

1

adj

Meaning 1

Relating to or exhibiting anti-Semitism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: philo-Semitic

2

adj

Meaning 2

Alternative spelling of anti-Semitic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective

Meaning 3

relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: antisemitic

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From anti- + Semitic; calque of German antisemitisch, which was first used in 1860 by Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider. For more see anti-Semitism.

Across languages

Translations

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: antisemitik — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Amharic: ጸረ ሤማዊ (ṣärä śemawi) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Arabic: مُعَاد لِلْسَامِيَّة (muʕād li-s-sāmiyya) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Armenian: հակասեմական (hakasemakan) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Asturian: antisemita — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Belarusian: антысемі́цкі (antysjemícki) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Catalan: antisemita — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Catalan: antisemític — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 反猶太 /反犹太 (fǎnyóutài) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Czech: antisemitský — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Czech: protižidovský — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Danish: antisemitisk — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Esperanto: kontraŭjuda — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Esperanto: antisemitisma — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Finnish: antisemitistinen — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Finnish: antisemiittinen — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Finnish: juutalaisvastainen — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • French: antisémite — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Galician: antisemita — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • German: antisemitisch — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • German: judenfeindlich — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Hebrew: אַנְטִישֵׁמִי (antishémi) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Hungarian: antiszemita — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Irish: frith-Sheimíteach — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Italian: antisemita — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Italian: antisemitico — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Latvian: antisemītisks — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Manx: noi-Ewnagh — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Polish: antysemicki — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Portuguese: antissemítico — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Romanian: antisemit — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Russian: антисеми́тский (antisemítskij) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Serbo-Croatian: antisemitski — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Slovak: antisemitský — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Spanish: antisemita — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Swedish: antisemitisk — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Ukrainian: антисемі́тський (antysemítsʹkyj) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
  • Yiddish: אַנטיסעמיטיש (antisemitish) — exhibiting anti-Semitism
Real reading context

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