Dictionary

anticivic en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + civic.

Meanings

1. In opposition to citizenship.
2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.
   • To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ... 1997, Douglas P. Fry, Kaj Björkqvist, Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence:
   • Under television's relentlessly negative portrayal of events, the civic culture of optimism, idealism, rationalism, and nationalism was gradually giving way to an anticivic culture of distrust, a sense of political inefficacy, ... 2002, Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance:
   • Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement. 2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature:

Forms

Antonyms

pro-civic

Translations (1)

pt anticívico (against the welfare of citizens)