antisocial

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an·ti·so·cial /ˌæntɪˈsəʊʃəl $ -ˈsoʊ-/ adjectiveadj

1 BADantisocial behaviour is violent or harmful to other people, or shows that you do not care about other people 〔行为〕反社会的；危害社会的；不考虑他人利益的

She was finding it hard to cope with her son’s increasingly antisocial behaviour.

她觉得难以应付儿子日益加剧的反社会行为。

Smoking is an antisocial habit.

吸烟是一种无视他人利益的行为习惯。

► see thesaurus at unfriendly

2 UNFRIENDLYsomeone who is antisocial does not enjoy meeting or being with other people 〔人〕不喜欢社交的，不合群的 OPP sociable

If I don’t go tonight, everyone will accuse me of being antisocial.

要是我今晚不去，所有人都会指责我不合群。

► see thesaurus at shy

3 ALONEan activity or job that is antisocial does not give you the chance to meet other people 〔活动或工作〕妨碍社交的 SYN unsocial

I got fed up with the low pay and antisocial hours.

工资微薄，还要在本该用于社交的时间上班，这让我受够了。

Examples from the Corpus

antisocial• Because she was so shy, people often thought she was antisocial.• Kip had always been shy, even antisocial.• Smoking cigarettes in public is increasingly considered antisocial.• As I hope to demonstrate later, by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial.• Communal, racist, and antisocial.• In children too there seems to be an increase in problems relating to antisocial, aggressive conduct and delinquent acts.• Gender is a bureaucratic solution to an antisocial habit.• Not everyone who likes playing computer games is an antisocial loner.• Now he was on a more obviously antisocial mission.

antisocial hours• Unexpected overtime, low wages and complicated antisocial hours are features for many care assistants.

an·ti·so·cial adjectiveadj

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