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Definition: Xenophobic |
XenophobicAdjective1. Suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Xenophobic |
| English words defined with "xenophobic": teddy boys. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Romania | In August another PRM party representative published a book called "The Nationalist," which included xenophobic and chauvinistic ideas. (references) |
Chad | This program, which began in 1995, repatriated a total of 14,000 citizens who had fled the civil war of the 1980's. In October 2000, at least 350 families were repatriated from Libya after clashes between Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans, which were described in the press as xenophobic reactions by the Libyans. (references) | |
Economic History | Burma | Burma's foreign economic relations reflect the xenophobic preferences of its military government. (references) |
Minorities | Austria | Statistics for 2000 showed a decrease in the number of official complaints of neo-Nazi, rightwing extremist, and xenophobic incidents. (references) |
Austria | During 2000 the Interior Ministry recorded 291 rightwing incidents, 36 xenophobic incidents, 9 anti-Semitic incidents, and 35 convictions. (references) | |
Sweden | In 1994 a Supreme Court ruling, which stated that it may be illegal to wear xenophobic symbols or racist paraphernalia, entered into effect. (references) | |
Political Economy | Austria | Interior Ministry statistics for 2000 showed a decrease in the number of official complaints of neo-Nazi, rightwing extremist, and xenophobic incidents. (references) |
Political Rights | Romania | The extremist, xenophobic Greater Romania Party (PRM) won the next largest share of parliamentary and presidential votes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Xenophobic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Xenophobic" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "xenophobic": non-xenophobic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
xenophobic | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "xenophobic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '外 (anti-foreigner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | xénophobe (xenophobia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fremdenfeindlich (hostile to foreigners, hostile to strangers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξενόφοβος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | xenofobo (xenophobe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enophobicxay ксенофобный, ненавидящий иностранцев. (various references) ksenofobski. (various references) xenófobo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "xenophobic": xenophobically. (additional references) | |
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"Xenophobic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endophoric, neophobic, xenophiobic, xenophobics, xenophonic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "xenophobic" (pronounced ze'nufÄ"bik) |
| 3 | -b i k | acerbic, aerobic, amoebic, anaerobic, arabic, ascorbic, cherubic, claustrophobic, cubic, homophobic, phobic, pubic, syllabic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-i-n-o-o-p-x" | |
-3 letters: chopine, hencoop, hipbone, phocine, phoenix. | |
-4 letters: chopin, exonic, icebox, ochone, phenix, phobic, phonic, poncho. | |
-5 letters: bench, boche, chine, chino, copen, epoch, niche, opine, phone, phono, pinch, ponce, pooch, xenic. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-i-n-o-o-p-x" | |
+4 letters: xenophobically. | |
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