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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
ANTONYMS
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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