anti-social









anti-social


adjective

  1. unwilling or unable to associate in a normal or friendly way with other people: He’s not antisocial, just shy.
  2. antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing; threatening: an antisocial act.
  3. opposed or detrimental to social order or the principles on which society is constituted: antisocial behavior.
  4. Psychiatry. of or relating to a pattern of behavior in which social norms and the rights of others are persistently violated.

noun

  1. a person exhibiting antisocial traits.

adjective

  1. avoiding the company of other people; unsociable
  2. contrary or injurious to the interests of society in general
adj.

also antisocial, 1797, from anti- + social (adj.). First-attested use is in sense of “unsociable;” meaning “hostile to social order or norms” is from 1802.

adj.

  1. Behaving in a manner that violates the social or legal norms of society.
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