xenophobic
adjectiveGraduateELO 1,400GRECAT
DEFINITION
suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign
WEBSTER'S 1913
Not enduring; not able to endure.
ETYMOLOGY
Gk. xeno- strange + phobos fear
SYNONYMS
IN LITERATURE
“They are the economies of nations xenophobic, closed to the outside world, with currency regulations, limitations on foreign ownership, constrained (instead of free) trade.”
— Samuel Vaknin, After the Rain : how the West lost the East
IN USE
“The Economist called it "xenophobic", and John Sutherland writing in The Guardian stated that: "Braveheart gave full rein to a toxic Anglophobia".”
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