Antiathletic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Disliking or opposing athletics.
"While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary."
- 2 Unathletic; lacking sporting physique or ability.
"Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness."
- 3 unsporting, unsportsmanlike
Example
More examples"While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary."
Etymology
From anti- + athletic.
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