xenophobic

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bik/, /ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bik/
• Rhymes: -əʊbɪk

xenophobic (comparative more xenophobic, superlative most xenophobic)

1. Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

   Synonyms: xenophobous; see also Thesaurus:xenophobic

   Antonym: xenophilic

   • 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus:

     Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses

   • 2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian‎:

     It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.

   • 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN‎:

     Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who often spreads xenophobic arguments, has ardently embraced the charge that Democrats are “trying to replace the current electorate – the voters now casting ballots – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.”

xenophobic (plural xenophobics)

1. A xenophobe.
   • 2008 April 16, Martin J. Brown, “Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals”, in The New York Times‎:

     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?

• racist