xenophobic

adj
/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/UK/ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bɪk/US

Etymology

From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

  1. derived from -φοβία
  2. derived from -phobia
  3. formed as xenophobic — “xeno- + -phobic

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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?

The neighborhood

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