Meanings
adjectiveanticommercial (comparative more anticommercial, superlative most anticommercial)
comparative more anticommercial · superlative most anticommercial
- Opposed to commercialism
Shaped by a strongly anticommercial ideology, it places too much emphasis on the division between giving and selling.
2007 January 28, Virginia Postrel, “Grim Harvest”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
- Ancient Greekἀντι- (anti-)
- Englishanti-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Italic*merks
- Latinmerx
- Latincommercium
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Late Latincommerciāli
- Frenchcommercia
- Englishcommercial
- Englishanticommercial
From anti- + commercial.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Italian anticommerciale
- anticommercialeopposed to commercialism
Portuguese anticomercial
- anticomercialopposed to commercialism
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APA
anticommercial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticommercial
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“anticommercial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticommercial. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticommercial,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticommercial.
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