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

Its soft power – once built on revolutionary legitimacy, Shiite ideological influence and anti-Western propaganda – has eroded dramatically. —Shukriya Bradost, The Conversation, 28 June 2025

Critics argue that the money from Obama and Biden helped Iran build its anti-Western terrorist forces. —Sharyl Attkisson, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025

Ultimately, the end of the Islamic Republic would be a blow to the entire anti-Western ecosystem being built and compromise attempts to build spheres of influence and economic opportunity outside U.S.-led power structures. —Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2025

Demonstrators waved national flags, chanted anti-Western slogans, and held up posters of military commanders killed in recent strikes. —Amanda Castro peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-Western

• northwestern
• southwestern
• western