Xenophobe

//ˈzɛ.nə.foʊb// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
  2. 2
    One who hates or fears extraterrestial life. nonstandard, rare

Synonyms

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bigotmisanthropemisogynistracistxenophobiacxenophobian

Example

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"I'm not a xenophobe, because I also hate my own ethnic group."

Etymology

From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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