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antiwomen

antiwomen adjective: prejudiced against women; misogynistic.

Adjective

antiwomen (not generally comparable, comparative more antiwomen, superlative most antiwomen)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Prejudiced against women; misogynistic.
    • Val Glaser, the board member behind the 10-3 vote (with three abstentions) to quash the poster, told Windy City Times: "Playboy is antiwomen and thus antilesbian.1991 October 25, Michael Miner, “Burn This Poster?/Local News”, in Chicago Reader
    • 13 years have passed from when we first started this labeling exercise and clearly, by anybody's definition, the music today is more violent, more hateful, more antiwomen than before — and these are top Billboard chart records.2000, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Labels and Lyrics: Do Parental Advisory Labels Inform Consumers and Parents? : Hearing Before the Committee...

Synonyms of antiwomen

Antonyms

  • prowomen

Forms of antiwomen

comparativemore antiwomen
superlativemost antiwomen

Origin of antiwomen

From anti- + women.

Questions about antiwomen

What does antiwomen mean?
Antiwomen means prejudiced against women; misogynistic.
What part of speech is antiwomen?
Antiwomen is an adjective.

Words near antiwomen in the dictionary

  1. antiwolbachial
  2. antiwolf
  3. antiwoman
  4. antiwomanist
  5. antiwomanists
  6. antiwomen
  7. antiwork
  8. antiworker
  9. antiworld
  10. antiworlds
  11. antiworm

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