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

An ultraconservative, anti-Western hawk who routinely lectured U.S. officials during nuclear negotiations. —Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was notably absent from this year’s event, further adding to the perception of the SCO’s anti-Western orientation. —Nectar Gan, CNN, 4 July 2024

For young, impressionable Americans, social media has a comparable impact on the indoctrination of children under Hamas and Al Qaeda rule through anti-Western and anti-Jewish cartoons, children’s books, and school instructions. —Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024

Hobbs noted how scary things looked worldwide: Europe was still a mess after World War II, the Soviet Union had recently gotten the bomb, conflicts were raging in Korea and French Indochina, and anti-Western protests had begun in Iran. —Paul Glenshaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above