anti-vaccination

adjective

an·​ti-vac·​ci·​n·​ation

ˌan-tē-ˌvak-sə-ˈnā-shən,

ˌan-ˌtī- 

: opposed to vaccination

But state health officials and vaccine proponents have argued that unvaccinated children pose a health risk to others. They point to the recent measles outbreak in Johnson County and elsewhere, a disease that has reappeared since the anti-vaccination movement has grown.

—Sarah Ritter

Anti-vaccination parents have slammed a new law that bans unimmunised children from kindergartens.

—Thomas Duff

Examples of anti-vaccination in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Earlier this month, Kennedy dismantled the all-important Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and remade it into the spearhead for his anti-vaccination campaigns. —Michael A. Hiltzik, Mercury News, 28 June 2025

Kennedy himself has a long history of anti-vaccination activism. —Erika Edwards, NBC news, 22 June 2025

But these statistics have not deterred a persistent anti-vaccination movement that expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. —Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2025

Russia has long stoked the anti-vaccination movement in America to undermine our public health, so having leading vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of America’s Health and Human Services Department is a huge Kremlin win. —Elizabeth Shackelford, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-vaccination

• acclimatisation
• acclimatization
• acidification
• actualization
• annualization
• autocorrelation
• autoregulation
• beatification
• beneficiation
• biodegradation
• biotransformation
• bureaucratization