anticar

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ car.

Adjective

anticar (comparative more anticar, superlative most anticar)

1. Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
   • 1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.

   • 2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.

Noun

anticar (plural anticars)

1. An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
   • 1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning‎^[3], page 362:

     He considered the Falcon an anticar. He thought it served the puritan bias of the man who made it more than the needs of the customers or the company.

   • 2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times‎^[4]:

     It was a virtual anticar.

Anagrams

• Catrina, acritan, catrina

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French antiquaire.

Noun

anticar m (plural anticari)

1. antiquarian

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anticar	anticarul		anticari	anticarii
genitive-dative	anticar	anticarului		anticari	anticarilor
vocative	anticarule			anticarilor