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antifeminist

antifeminist adjective: antagonistic to feminism.

Adjective

antifeminist (comparative more antifeminist, superlative most antifeminist)

  1. Antagonistic to feminism.
    • He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University)
  2. Advocating antifeminism.

Noun

antifeminist (plural antifeminists)

  1. A person who is antagonistic to feminism.
    • This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male...2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism
  2. An advocate of antifeminism.

Forms of antifeminist

Adjective
comparativemore antifeminist
superlativemost antifeminist
Noun
pluralantifeminists

Origin of antifeminist

From anti- + feminist.

Words formed from antifeminist

  • anti-antifeminist

Questions about antifeminist

What does antifeminist mean?
Antifeminist means antagonistic to feminism.
What part of speech is antifeminist?
Antifeminist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antifeminist in the dictionary

  1. antifemales
  2. antifeminine
  3. antifemininity
  4. antifeminism
  5. antifeminisms
  6. antifeminist
  7. antifeministic
  8. antifeminists
  9. antifems
  10. antiferment
  11. antifermentation

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