Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antihospital

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-hos-pi-tal
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Opposing hospitals.

Example Sentences

"In 1948, Albert Deutsch's Shame of the States provided a devastating expose of the inhumanity in many (not all) public psychiatric hospitals. Growing public outrage built strong antihospital sentiment […]"

Etymology

From anti- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of antihotel.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

more antihospital (comparative) most antihospital (superlative)

Questions

What does antihospital mean?: Opposing hospitals.
Where does antihospital come from?: From anti- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of antihotel.

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