antismoking
adjective
antismoking is an adjective meaning “Opposing or prohibiting smoking, particularly the smoking of tobacco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-M-O-K-I-N-G and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antismoking mean?
adjective
- 1
Opposing or prohibiting smoking, particularly the smoking of tobacco
an antismoking ordinance
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antismoking?
Antismoking has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antismoking
- anti-smoking
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antismoking?
Antismoking appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).
Antismoking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense opposing or prohibiting smoking:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antitabac |
| German | Nichtraucher-, Antiraucher-, Anti-Tabak- |
| Portuguese | antifumo, antitabagismo |
| Spanish | antitabaco |
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 antismoking come from?
From anti- + smoking.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).