anti-spam

adjective

an·​ti-spam ˌan-tē-ˈspam  ˌan-tī- 

variants or antispam

: serving or intended to eliminate or reduce spam

anti-spam laws/legislation

antispam filters

… spammers keep coming up with new tricks to work their way around anti-spam technology …

—Thomas Claburn

Examples of anti-spam in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The shape is familiar to anyone who lived through the antivirus, anti-spam and web application security wars, and the lessons from those wars tell us almost exactly what to do. — Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

Starting on June 15, 2026, sites using back button hijacking could be hit with either automated or manual anti-spam actions. — ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026

But spammers can use these domains to flood inboxes with emails, simply creating new domains whenever the old ones are flagged by Microsoft’s anti-spam defenses. — PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2025

The anti-spam tech works by analyzing a conversation for red flags. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 May 2025

Something analogous was just narrowly avoided on the Internet, when anti-spam watchdog Spamhaus came under the largest denial-of-service attack ever recorded. — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2013

Word History

First Known Use

1995, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-spam

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