anti-civil
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.67 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Uncivil(ised) and in opposition to civil society; opposed to or lacking the features of civil society (for example, opposing or simply lacking civil liberties).
Example Sentences
- "1905-1909, Matthew Arnold, Essays … to see the Antonines as they really were;—one may concede that the point of view from which Christianity appeared something anti-civil and anti-social, …"
- "[...] then the latter, by definition, can't be civil. They might even be anti-civil or a-civil. They must be incompatible with civilization. But this is simply not the case. As was shown, [...]"
- "In the Leviathan, Hobbes could only represent the pre-civil as the anti-civil, as that which lacked in every respect what was considered important in civil society."
- "Jews were not stigmatized simply because they were held to be anti-Christian, but because their Jewish qualities were constructed as dangerous for civil society itself. [...] What was insisted on, above all, was the allegedly anti-civil clannishness of Jews..."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more anti-civil (comparative)
most anti-civil (superlative)