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antimale

antimale adjective: averse to, or acting against, males.

Adjective

antimale (comparative more antimale, superlative most antimale)

  1. Averse to, or acting against, males.
    • When I saw Jean O'Leary for the first time, she was speaking in vehemently radical and anti-male terms at a GAA meeting.1979 April 7, Nancy Walker, “NGTF, the Movement, and All of Us”, in Gay Community News, page 5
    Synonyms:
    misandric

Noun

antimale (plural antimales)

  1. Something that is anti-male.
    • We [are] entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simply linear pathway of genes going one after the other.2009, Vilain E, Rediscovering Biology, Unit 11 - Biology of Sex and Gender, Expert interview transcripts, Annenberg Media

Synonyms of antimale

Forms of antimale

Adjective
comparativemore antimale
superlativemost antimale
alternative formanti-male
Noun
pluralantimales

Origin of antimale

From anti- + male.

Questions about antimale

What does antimale mean?
Antimale means averse to, or acting against, males.
What part of speech is antimale?
Antimale can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antimale in the dictionary

  1. antimakeup
  2. antimalaria
  3. antimalarial
  4. antimalarially
  5. antimalarials
  6. antimale
  7. antimales
  8. antimalodor
  9. antimalware
  10. antimammalian
  11. antiman

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