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operaphobe

noun

Etymology

From opera + -phobe.

  1. borrowed from opera
  2. suffixed as operaphobe — “opera + phobe”

Definitions

  1. A person who hates opera.

    • The prospect of yet another review was greeted with despair at Covent Garden, where Eyre was remembered as an operaphobe and close colleague of Genista Mclntosh.
    • Whether you're an operaphile or an operaphobe, the importance of opera to the development of Western music is singular, and thus we will revisit opera continually over the remainder of this book.
    • At that moment, if she'd asked me, confirmed operaphobe that I was, I wouldn't have been able to tell her which fate sounded worse: music teacher, opera singer, or being boiled alive in oil!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA