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Xenophobic

//ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk// adj, noun

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Adjective

1
Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.
"Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses"

Adjective

1
suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign wordnet

Noun

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?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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