anti-Western

adjective

an·​ti-West·​ern ˌan-tē-ˈwe-stərn 

ˌan-tī-

variants or less commonly anti-West

ˌan-tē-ˈwest 

ˌan-tī-

: opposed to or hostile toward Western countries

anti-Western terrorists

anti-Western sentiment

… triggered an outpouring of anti-Western and anti-American feeling in Africa and at the United Nations.

—Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

… at moments during the film, I felt I was back there again, amid the anti-West slogans; the massive anti-American demonstrations in front of the U.S. embassy.

—Bernard Kalb

Examples of anti-Western in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While neither China nor India is willing to enter into a direct confrontation with the West, both are happy to see Russia pushing an anti-Western agenda. —Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025

Crucially, Brazil’s foreign policy has consistently refrained from adopting an explicitly anti-American or anti-Western posture. —Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025

Target Malaria, a major research program backed by the Gates Foundation, has been shut down by the Burkina Faso government after a campaign by local anti-Western activists. —Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025

The United States, Vindman reports, never went far enough to counteract the near-eternal threat Russia posed—never containing or extinguishing it, or standing up to the anti-Western bully. —Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-Western

• northwestern
• southwestern
• western