Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antimother

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-moth-er
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.

Example Sentences

"The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children."
"These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them..."
"As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother."
"As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary."

Etymology

From anti- + mother.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

antimothers (plural)

Questions

What does antimother mean?: A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.
Where does antimother come from?: From anti- + mother.

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