anti-Western

adjective

an·​ti-West·​ern ˌan-tē-ˈwe-stərn 

ˌan-tī-

variants or less commonly anti-West

ˌan-tē-ˈwest 

ˌan-tī-

: opposed to or hostile toward Western countries

anti-Western terrorists

anti-Western sentiment

… triggered an outpouring of anti-Western and anti-American feeling in Africa and at the United Nations.

—Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

… at moments during the film, I felt I was back there again, amid the anti-West slogans; the massive anti-American demonstrations in front of the U.S. embassy.

—Bernard Kalb

Examples of anti-Western in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With catastrophic consequences, experts failed to appreciate the danger of Japan’s navy surpassing U.S. capabilities in the Pacific, the growing appeal of Japan’s anti-Western narratives, or the hollowness of European imperial power in the region. —Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024

Russian media particularly hones in on anticolonial, anti-Western narratives that can feel particularly salient in markets that have been deeply impacted by Western imperialism. —Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024

And the anti-Western posturing of Georgian Dream, along with the country’s controversial foreign agent law, directly mirrors President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on domestic political opposition in neighboring Russia. —Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024

The relationship is about more than agreeing on anti-Western ideology. —NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above