antimajority

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adjective

Opposing a social majority.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectiveantimajority (comparative more antimajority, superlative most antimajority)

comparative more antimajority · superlative most antimajority

  1. Opposing a social majority.

    If further evidence of the BBC's willingness to operate an antimajority colour bar were required, then it was provided in an advertisement in the Guardian of Monday, 6 June 1994. This applied exclusively to "ethnic minority applicants,"[…]

    1998, R. Honeyford, The Commission for Racial Equality, page 271
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    The zoot suit was antimajority class and antimajority ethnicity. There are classic black-and-white photos of Bennington College women in the 1940s and 1950s dressed in a manner that offended the townspeople because the women were not "well dressed."

    2011, Will Barratt, Social Class on Campus: Theories and Manifestations, page 34

Origin

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APA

antimajority. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimajority

MLA

“antimajority.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimajority. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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

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