antiholiday

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ holiday.

Adjective

antiholiday (comparative more antiholiday, superlative most antiholiday)

1. Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.
   • 1993 February 12, Jack Helbig, “Hellcab”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.

Noun

antiholiday (plural antiholidays)

1. A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal or regular holidays.
   • 2002 December 20, Douglas Wolk, “What's Left?”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "