<B>antidote, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a medicine that counteracts the harmful effect of a poison; remedy. <BR> <I>Ex. Milk is an antidote for some poisons.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a remedy for any evil; counteracting agent. <BR> <I>Ex. Education is an antidote for ignorance. Prosperity is a good antidote for political unrest.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antidromic">
<B>antidromic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physiology.) able to conduct impulses in a direction opposite to the usual, as a nerve fiber. adv. <B>antidromically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antidumping">
<B>antidumping, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> providing protection against dumping of foreign goods on the domestic market. <BR> <I>Ex. antidumping duty, antidumping laws.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antielectron">
<B>anti-electron, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a positron. </DL>
<B>anti-enzyme, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substance having enzymatic properties that acts to inhibit or reduce the effects of another enzyme. <BR> <I>Ex. Discovery that the fungus responsible for Dutch elm disease depends for nutrition on two enzymes formed by it, gave hope that an anti-enzyme may be an effective weapon against this fungus (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antiestablishment">
<B>antiestablishment, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposed to a country's political, social, and economic establishment. <BR> <I>Ex. the antiestablishment movement, antiestablishment slogans.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antievolutionist">
<B>anti-evolutionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person opposed to accepting the principles of evolutionary theory. </DL>
<A NAME="antifascism">
<B>antifascism</B> or <B>anti-Fascism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposition to the principles of fascism and to institutions and practices based on them. </DL>
<A NAME="antifascist">
<B>antifascist</B> or <B>anti-Fascist, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> opposed to the principles of fascism and to the institutions and practices based on them. <BR> <I>Ex. The radical young scientists ... were bitterly antifascist (C. P. Snow).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an antifascist person. </DL>
<A NAME="antifebrile">
<B>antifebrile, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> tending to reduce fever; antipyretic. <DD><I>noun </I> a drug or agent that reduces fever. </DL>
<A NAME="antifebrin">
<B>antifebrin</B> or <B>antifebrine, </B>noun. <B>=acetanilide.</B></DL>
<A NAME="antifederal">
<B>antifederal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposed to federalism. Also, <B>Antifederal.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antifederalism">
<B>antifederalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposition to centralization of power at the expense of power held by component states. </DL>
<A NAME="antifederalist">
<B>antifederalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any opponent of federalism. </DL>
<A NAME="antifederalist">
<B>Antifederalist</B> or <B>Anti-Federalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a member of the Antifederal Party. </DL>
<A NAME="antifederalparty">
<B>Antifederal Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a political party that opposed the adoption of the Constitution of the United States before 1789. </DL>
<A NAME="antifeedant">
<B>antifeedant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chemical substance, such as an alkaloid, coumarin, or terpene, that repels plant-eating insects. <BR> <I>Ex. New approaches to pest control ... exploit the use of juvenile hormone analogues, "antifeedants," and chemosterilants (Nature). If crops were sprayed with efficient, synthetic antifeedants, the pests might turn from crops to weeds (G. B. Kauffman).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antifeminism">
<B>antifeminism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposition to feminist principles or doctrine. <BR> <I>Ex. Freud's own childish rage and despair find expression in antifeminism, the subjection of love to sex, the acclamation of hate ... (Maclean's).</I> adj., n. <B>antifeminist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antiferromagnetic">
<B>antiferromagnetic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that resists being magnetized or is nonmagnetic. <BR> <I>Ex. Antiferromagnetic materials behave in some important respects like ferromagnetic materials such as iron, but are much weaker magnetically (New Scientist).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a substance that exhibits such properties. </DL>
<A NAME="antiferromagnetism">
<B>antiferromagnetism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the property of resisting magnetization or of being nonmagnetic. </DL>
<A NAME="antifertility">
<B>antifertility, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> preventing or reducing fertility; contraceptive. <BR> <I>Ex. an antifertility drug.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antifluoridation">
<B>antifluoridation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposition to the addition of fluorides to drinking water. </DL>
<A NAME="antifluoridationist">
<B>antifluoridationist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who opposes the addition of fluorides to drinking water. </DL>
<A NAME="antifoam">
<B>antifoam, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substance that inhibits the formation of foam. </DL>
<A NAME="antifoaming">
<B>antifoaming, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inhibiting the formation of foam. </DL>
<A NAME="antifolic">
<B>antifolic, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any one of a group of compounds that counteract the effects of folic acid. <DD><I>adj. </I> having the ability to counteract folic acid. </DL>
<A NAME="antiforeignism">
<B>antiforeignism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> opposition to foreign persons, things, or ideas; xenophobia. <BR> <I>Ex. Moroccan antiforeignism was largely to blame for the country's economic plight (Melvin Kranzberg).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antiform">
<B>antiform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> avoiding or opposing traditional forms and materials in art. <BR> <I>Ex. "Antiform" art ... calls upon the expressive powers inherent in sheets of rubber, felt, chicken wire, and lead pellets (Harold Rosenberg).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antifouling">
<B>antifouling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that prevents or reduces encrustation of foreign matter on a surface, as of carbon in a cylinder or on a valve of an internal-combustion engine, of scale or rust in a boiler, or of barnacles below the water line of a ship. </DL>
<A NAME="antifreeze">
<B>antifreeze, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substance with a low freezing point added to a liquid to lower its freezing point. Alcohol was used as an antifreeze in automobile radiators because it prevented the water from freezing during cold weather. Now glycol, which does not evaporate at normal engine temperatures, is widely used. </DL>
<A NAME="antifriction">
<B>antifriction, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> preventing or reducing friction. </DL>
<A NAME="antifrictionalloy">
<B>antifriction alloy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any of various alloys of copper, tin, lead, antimony, or zinc, used especially in bearings. </DL>
<A NAME="antifungal">
<B>antifungal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that destroys or inhibits the growth or action of fungi. </DL>
<A NAME="antifungus">
<B>antifungus, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an antifungal substance or agent. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=antifungal.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antigen">
<B>antigen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any protein substance that causes the body to produce antibodies to counteract it. Bacteria are antigens. Antigens also include toxins and foreign blood cells. </DL>
<A NAME="antigenic">
<B>antigenic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like an antigen; functioning as an antigen. adv. <B>antigenically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antigenicdeterminant">
<B>antigenic determinant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the part of an antigen which causes a reaction in the immune system, especially an epitope. <BR> <I>Ex. It should be possible to make vaccines consisting of synthetic antigenic determinants rather than natural whole antigens (Ben Patrusky).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antigenicity">
<B>antigenicity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being an antigen or functioning as an antigen. <BR> <I>Ex. The polio vaccines have differed greatly in antigenicity from batch to batch (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antigone">
<B>Antigone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who gave her dead brother Polynices a proper burial, though doing so meant her own death, as her uncle, King Creon of Thebes, had forbidden it on pain of death. </DL>
<A NAME="antigorite">
<B>antigorite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of serpentine, occurring in flaky layers in rocks of massive formation. </DL>
<A NAME="antigovernment">
<B>antigovernment, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>opposed to the institution or apparatus of government. <DD><B> 2a. </B>opposed to a particular government or its policies. <BR> <I>Ex. [The] National Revolutionary Movement, aided by disqualification of some antigovernment candidates, captured 78 seats in the 123-man Assembly (Time).</I> <DD><B> b. </B><B>=anti-administration.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antigravity">
<B>antigravity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a physical force by which the force of gravity is opposed or neutralized. <BR> <I>Ex. Antimatter, Einstein said, could possess antigravity (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antigsuit">
<B>anti-G suit, =G-suit.</B></DL>
<A NAME="antihalation">
<B>antihalation, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Photography.) <DD><I>adj. </I> preventing or counteracting the effects of halation. <DD><I>noun </I> the treating of film with an antihalation substance. </DL>
<A NAME="antihelium">
<B>antihelium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the analogue in antimatter of helium. </DL>
<A NAME="antihelix">
<B>antihelix, </B>noun, pl. <B>-helices</B> , <B>-helixes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the curved ridge of cartilage within the outer rim (helix) of the human ear. Also, <B>anthelix.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="antihemophilicfactor">
<B>antihemophilic factor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a protein in blood plasma that causes clotting. (Abbr.) AHF (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="antihemophilicglobulin">
<B>antihemophilic globulin,</B> <B>=antihemophilic factor.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr.) AHG (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="antihero">
<B>antihero, </B>noun, pl. <B>-roes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a main character in a novel, play, story, or poem, who has none of the qualities normally expected of a hero; literary or dramatic protagonist who is typically unheroic, unconventional, and often resentful or contemptuous of accepted social standards and values. <BR> <I>Ex. It is ... the tone of the antiheroes of our time: ironic, indignant, footloose, scarred, political (Observer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="antiheroic">
<B>antiheroic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with an antihero. </DL>
