Xenophobic

Origin

- + phobic + -, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xenos, "foreign, strange") + φόβος (phobos, "fear")

Full definition of xenophobic

Adjective

1. Suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
• "Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses" Weekend Argus May 13/14 2006.

Related terms

• xenophobia
• xenophobe

Noun

1. A xenophobe.
• 2008, April 16, , Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals, 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?