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antibeauty en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + beauty.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Opposed to beauty.
   • However, the American sensibility was less caught up in Angst and unnaturalness; it rejected the antibeauty implication of the Europeans. 1982, Jack Burnham, Beyond modern sculpture:
   • Related to this threat of a career is the idea, again reinforced by conservatives, that feminists are somehow antibeauty and/or ugly. 2007, Kelly Fisher Lowe, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, page 191:
2. (not-comparable) Opposed to societal norms and beauty standards.
3. (not-comparable) A different form of beauty.
4. (dated, not-comparable) Being or pertaining to an anti-bottom quark (formerly called anti-beauty quark).

Forms

Translations (1)

pt antibeleza (opposed to beauty)