An antibacchius is a rare metrical foot used in formal poetry.

In accentual-syllabic verse an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable. Its opposite is a bacchius.

Example:

Blind luck is

loved more than

hard thinking.

• Anthon, C. (1844). A System of Latin Prosody and Metre, etc. Harper & Bros. p. 134. Retrieved 2021-04-29.

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