anti-Western

adjective

an·​ti-West·​ern ˌan-tē-ˈwe-stərn How to pronounce anti-Western (audio)
ˌan-tī-
variants or less commonly anti-West
ˌan-tē-ˈwest How to pronounce anti-Western (audio)
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

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Kovalchuk’s remarks show the depth of anti-Western feeling and sympathy for conspiracy theories within the Russian ruling elite. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 India has also been reluctant to support or join Chinese efforts to build an anti-Western bloc. Tanvi Madan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently demanded that India stop buying oil from Russia and leave the intergovernmental group BRICS, even though Delhi has helped keep Beijing and Moscow from turning it into an anti-Western organization. Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025 On September 11, 2001, 19 Islamist hijackers working for Osama Bin Ladin and his Al Qaeda anti-Western terrorist organization seized control of four U.S. airliners. Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anti-Western

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-Western was in 1933

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“Anti-Western.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Western. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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