antiblack

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adjective

Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

Opposite
Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveantiblack (comparative more antiblack, superlative most antiblack)

comparative more antiblack · superlative most antiblack · alternative anti-black · alternative anti-Black

  1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

    The unpublished study found that the answers revealed little evidence of antiblack bias[…]

    2009 January 15, Sarah Kershaw, “Talk About Race? Relax, It’s O.K.”, in New York Times
    1 more example

    [It] overlapped significantly with some aspects of antiblack ideologies in the United States, through forms of antiblack racism in Cuba that preceded the U.S. occupation. As de la Fuente notes, calls for de-Africanization […]

    2006, Michael Hanchard, Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203

    Antonyms: pro-black

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivediscriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

French antinoir, anti-noir
  • antinoirunfavorable to black people
  • anti-noirunfavorable to black people
  • négrophobeunfavorable to black people
German schwarzenfeindlich
  • schwarzenfeindlichunfavorable to black people
Polish rasistowski wobec czarnych
  • rasistowski wobec czarnychunfavorable to black people
Portuguese antinegro, antinegros
  • antinegrounfavorable to black people
  • antinegrosunfavorable to black people
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antiblack,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiblack.

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