Adjective: xenophobic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more xenophobic |
| Superlative | most xenophobic |
Sample Sentences
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Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses [2006 May 13, Weekend Argus:]
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It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies. [2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian:]
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Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who often spreads xenophobic arguments, has ardently embraced the charge that Democrats are “trying to replace the current electorate – the voters now casting ballots – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.” [2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:]
Adjectives inflected like xenophobic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Verbs referencing "xenophobic"
Finnish Adjectives
ksenofobinen.