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Meaning of antisocial in English

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antisocial
adjective

UK & /ˌæn.tiˈsəʊ.ʃəl / US & /ˌæn.t̬ iˈsoʊ.ʃəl /

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harmful to society:

• antisocial behaviour
• Increasingly, smoking is regarded as an
antisocial habit.
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often avoiding spending time with other

people:

• I hope they won't think I'm antisocial if I don't

join them in the bar.

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• Almost overnight, that sweet little child

had turned into an antisocial monster.
• There's a problem of antisocial
behaviour among teenagers in the town.
• They have very antisocial neighbours
who play music all night and leave
rubbish everywhere.
• Sport and other clubs keep young
people from becoming involved in
vandalism and other antisocial activities.
• Surely religion ought to prevent people
behaving in an antisocial and immoral
way?

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antisocial | AMERICAN DICTIONARY

antisocial
adjective

US & /ˌæn·tiˈsoʊ·ʃəl , ˌæn·tɑɪ- /

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harmful to society:

• Some critics argued that movies caused

antisocial behavior.
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Antisocial also means not wanting to

spend time with or be friendly with other
people:

• If you don’t hang out with your friends, they’ll

consider you weird and antisocial.

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EXAMPLES of antisocial

antisocial
These stresses and antisocial behavior may, in turn,
cause an increase in children's internalizing
problems through the life course.
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The second general objective was to assess the

impact of the experimental prevention program on
developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior.
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These personal and peer relationship characteristics

function as risk factors and likely represent potential
pathways toward the development of antisocial and
perhaps criminal behavior.
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Both the profiles of neighborhood experience and a

measure of census-tract-level neighborhood hazard
(poverty and violence) showed relationships to
antisocial behavior.
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Is there support to be drawn from violence

prevention for this distinction or similar differentiation
among youth engaged in violence and related
antisocial behavior?
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These social patterns may explain why parent and

self-reported antisocial activity in eighth grade
predicted subsequent teen parenting.
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In this context, it would mean that all boys who were

arrested early also had been identified even earlier
as an antisocial child.
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At all time points, social preference was correlated

positively with work 0 school engagement or
academics and negatively correlated with arrests
and antisocial behavior.
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That is, the role of constructive, proactive parenting

in decreasing children's disruptive antisocial
behavior patterns was strongest for children who
initially had many problems.
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In addition, the present investigation specifically

compared two viable alternative models for
describing longitudinal change in antisocial behavior
and alcohol dependence.
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The first set is often called "protective" factors in that

they hasten the process of desistance among men
at risk for continued antisocial behavior.
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Violent husbands were less likely to be classified as

securely attached and more likely to be classified as
dismissing and antisocial.
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Currently, voluntarily inducing infertility seems to be

regarded as somewhat antisocial behaviour.
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The developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior

were identified empirically, not based on
predetermined cutoff values.
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Etiologic connections among substance

dependence, antisocial behavior, and personality :
modeling the externalizing spectrum.
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Translations of antisocial

in Chinese (Traditional)

反社會的, 對社會有害的, 危害公共利益的…

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in Chinese (Simplified)

反社会的, 对社会有害的, 危害公共利益的…

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in Spanish

antisocial, poco sociable, insociable…

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in Portuguese

antissocial, insociável, retraído…

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