xenophobic
adj/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/UK/ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bɪk/US
Etymology
From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Definitions
Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or…
Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.
- Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses
- It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.
A xenophobe.
- So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA