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Meaning of antiathletic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Disliking or opposing athletics.
  2. Unathletic; lacking sporting physique or ability.
  3. unsporting, unsportsmanlike

Examples

“While a new breed of self-indulgent athletes resisted discipline and sacrifice, antiathletic faculty were jealous of the coach's popularity and salary.”
“Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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