xenophobic

comparative more xenophobic · superlative most xenophobic

1. Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestrial life.

   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

   2 more examples

   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

   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

   Synonyms: xenophobous · Antonyms: xenophilic

plural xenophobics

1. A xenophobe.

   So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?

   2008 April 16, Martin J. Brown, “Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals”, in The New York Times