antivax

or an·ti-vax

[ an-tee-vaks, an-tahy- ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. opposed to vaccines and vaccination; antivaccination: the antivax movement.

   antivax parents;

   the antivax movement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antivax¹

First recorded in 1810–15 as Anti-Vacks (in the sense “persons opposed to vaccination”), in a letter by Edward Jenner); anti- + vax ( def )

Example Sentences

Taylor grew up there in Mullumbimby, a small hamlet in northern New South Wales, and a town she describes as “dirty hippie, no shoes, like antivax, organic food.”

From Los Angeles Times

That includes states in which antivaccination politics reign, such as Florida, where the Republican-appointed surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, has issued antivax recommendations so misleading that he was publicly rebuked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

From Los Angeles Times

Despite Ladapo’s antivax propaganda, 81.4% of Floridians have received at least one shot and 68.6% are considered fully vaccinated.

From Los Angeles Times

Bad papers written by antivax ideologues designed to promote a narrative that vaccines are dangerous and/or ineffective...never die.

From Los Angeles Times

But the sudden appearance of this claim and its rapid spread across the anti-vaccine ecosystem speak volumes about how “bad papers written by antivax ideologues designed to promote a narrative that vaccines are dangerous and/or ineffective ... never die,” to quote the veteran pseudoscience debunker David Gorski.

From Los Angeles Times