anti-mask

or an·ti·mask

[ an-tee-mask, an-tahy- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Also anti-masking. being or relating to legislation prohibiting any form of concealment of the face in public:
Between the 1920s and 1950s, more than a dozen U.S. states passed anti-mask legislation in response to activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
being or relating to a person or group that resists wearing a mask over the nose and mouth to prevent the spread of infection, or that opposes the mandatory wearing of such masks, as during a pandemic:
An anti-mask protest outside our local high school triggered a precautionary lockdown at three other schools.
You won’t win your staunchly anti-mask friends over by shaming them.

First recorded in 1915–20; anti- ( def ) + mask ( def )

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