antiblack
adjective
antiblack is an adjective meaning “Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-B-L-A-C-K, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiblack mean?
adjective
- 1
Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiblack
- more antiblack comparative
- most antiblack superlative
- anti-black
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiblack?
Antiblack appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiblack in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unfavorable to black people:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antinoir, anti-noir, négrophobe |
| German | schwarzenfeindlich |
| Portuguese | antinegro, antinegros |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiblack come from?
From anti- + black.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).