anti-vaccine
- adjective
- /ˌæn.tiˈvæk.siːn/
- The anti-vaccine movement often spreads misinformation about the safety of vaccines.
- the anti-vaccine movement
Examples
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So the Epoch Times, for example, is a far right publication by most metrics that has promoted like anti vaccine, the big lie.
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We have a president who is at best very skeptical and indifferent to science in general and has expressed anti vaccine sentiments from time to time.
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We're not anti-vaccine, but we do want to understand every medicine we give our child, and we were grateful that our doctor was well-informed.
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And I don't see any time in the very near future when this growing anti science and anti vaccine agenda is going to disappear.
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I'm not sorry that he did, but it would have been nice to have some type of discussion about it because I had come from a very anti-vaccine background, and while I didn't embrace that way of life myself, I still had concerns or questions about vaccines.
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I was aware of some of the anti-vaccine arguments and left shaking my head in disbelief at some of the arguments and fearmongering that was presented.
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But most importantly, Biden can't be anti vaccine and he can't be anti lockdown because that's his, I mean, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
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If those players are anti-vaccine, then it's kind of like trying to get Fox News to retract something—the inaccuracies have currency that the later corrections don't.
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Many parents in the anti-vaccine community are concerned about potential side effects.
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The anti-vaccine stance has led to increased outbreaks of preventable diseases in some areas.
Synonyms
Against using vaccines
Surface Forms
Morphology
anti-vaccine = anti-vaccine (transparent) = anti + vaccine
The noun is a straightforward conversion from the adjective anti-vaccine, referring to a person characterized by that stance.
Etymology
Anti-vaccine is made of anti- meaning 'against' and vaccine, a word that comes from the Latin vacca meaning 'cow' because the first vaccine used cowpox. So anti-vaccine describes being 'against' vaccines.