Meanings
nounantidictionary (plural antidictionaries)
plural antidictionaries
- computationalThe set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind of knowledge. Such a method maintains an antidictionary with strings that do not appear in the input. Using the antidictionary, the encoder can often predict the next data symbol […]
2010, David Salomon, Giovanni Motta, Handbook of Data Compression, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 430
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
- Ancient Greekἀντι- (anti-)
- Englishanti-
- Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*déyḱeti
- Proto-Italic*deikō
- Latindīcō
- Latindictiō
- Latindictiōnārius?
- Medieval Latindictiōnārium
- Middle Englishdixionare
- Englishdictionary
- Englishantidictionary
From anti- (“opposite of, reverse”, prefix) + dictionary.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French antidictionnaire
- antidictionnaireset of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string
Portuguese antidicionário
- antidicionárioset of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with antidictionary
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APA
antidictionary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antidictionary
MLA
“antidictionary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antidictionary. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antidictionary,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antidictionary.
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