anti-subversion

adjective

an·​ti-sub·​ver·​sion

ˌan-tē-səb-ˈvər-zhən,

-shən,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or anti-subversive

ˌan-tē-səb-ˈvər-siv,

-ziv,

ˌan-tī- 

or less commonly antisubversion or antisubversive

: serving or intended to prevent or punish subversive activities

… is perhaps best known for trying to ram an unpopular anti-subversion law through the city legislature in 2003 when she was security chief.

—The Vancouver (Canada) Province

anti-subversive noun

or less commonly antisubversive

Yet isolationists and antisubversives, more than any other Americans, viewed communism and Soviet imperialism as an indivisible and mortal threat to everything for which America stood.

—Randall Bennett Woods

Examples of anti-subversion in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

More than 250 educators were fired or forced to resign under the Feinberg Law and related anti-subversion policies between 1948 and 1953. —Laura Gail Miller, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025

The Charlie Kirk Act must be an anti-subversion act. —Ayaan Hirsi Ali, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-subversion

• animadversion
• bioconversion
• cardioversion
• interconversion
• seroconversion
• aspersion
• aversion
• conversion
• dispersion
• diversion
• eversion
• excursion