ANTI-IMMIGRANT Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

anti-immigrant

adjective

Definition of anti-immigrant

as in xenophobic

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internationalist

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Recent Examples of anti-immigrant As men, women and children flooded across the border between Morocco and Spain, into the autonomous city of Ceuta at the end of July, European populists and anti-immigrant politicians capitalized on the shocking images of human desperation. — Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 The concept of belonging has taken on an even darker shade under the current government’s anti-immigrant and anti-diversity policies that foster violence against anyone who doesn’t fit the right’s ideal of whiteness. — Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 16 July 2026 In Soweto, anti-immigrant protesters marched through town wielding sticks and flags, with plans to go search for undocumented immigrants. — Reuters, NBC news, 9 July 2026 That distinction remains critical in South Florida, where many Venezuelans fear criminal narratives can quickly fuel broader anti-immigrant sentiment. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for anti-immigrant

Recent Examples of Synonyms for anti-immigrant

Adjective

Latinos have been not only frequent targets of nativism and xenophobic violence but also supporters — regularly enforcers — of it.

— Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Published a year after the start of the Iraq War, Foer’s rosy look at globalization was already passé as the US took on a more aggressive, hostile, and xenophobic posture to the rest of the world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

Definition of xenophobic

Adjective

At large right-wing events, young conservatives have consistently espoused a deeply nativist strain of politics, and expressed their fandom of Fuentes and his politics.

— Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
Not that extricating supply chains from China is sufficient in today’s nativist political climate.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of nativist

Adjective

In the 1910s, hems rose a few inches higher—in a practical and patriotic response to the Great War—and opaque fine mesh styles in geometric patterns became popular.

— April White, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2026
Even among the worldliest of us, an unexpected roundabout can trigger a fireworks-and-bald-eagles display of patriotic rage.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 2 Sep. 2026