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pro-American

pro-American

4.8
Supporting the United States and its policies
  • adjective
  • /proʊ əˈmɛrɪkən/
translation icon : proamericano
  • Many citizens support a pro-American agenda that emphasizes economic growth and international partnerships.

You cannot both be pro American and anti democracy.

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Examples

  • You cannot both be pro American and anti democracy.

  • Rich white men will because they say they're Christian and they say they're pro American, but the only thing they value is money.

  • There were pro American intellectuals who made the case in the very beginning that the that the American path was the way to go.

  • So let's have a pro American, pro democratic, pro democracy party and let's expand the tent.

  • And, you know, it's not easy to, you know, sort of ball that up into pro Trump or pro Biden or pro American or pro anything, frankly.

  • And so there was a need and a desire for heroism for, for pro American movies, for, you know, for just patriotism.

  • And so there was a need and a desire for heroism for, for pro American movies, for, you know, for just patriotism.

  • If we don't, if, if, if we just, I'm, I was, I'm pro American, but like, I, I can't do it anymore, man.

  • And the key question is rather than be like pro American, like if this won't last, if this current tax Americana won't last, what does post American look like?

  • The conference featured several pro-American speakers who discussed the importance of supporting U.S. policies abroad.

Antonyms

anti-American
  • Offensive
6.2

Disliking the United States or its policies

How Pro-American

patriotic
107 3.3
pro-American
4.8
neutral
218 3.6
un-American
  • US
26 7.5
anti-American
  • Offensive
6.2

Surface Forms

pro-American positive

Morphology

pro-American = American (transparent) = pro + Americ + an

The prefix 'pro-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'supporting' to the adjective 'American'.

Etymology

Pro-American combines the prefix pro- meaning 'for' and American meaning 'of the United States', and so it literally says 'for America'. So, pro-American describes someone or something that supports the United States and its policies.