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gatekeepery

gatekeepery adjective: engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping.

Adjective

gatekeepery (comparative more gatekeepery, superlative most gatekeepery)

  1. (informal) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping.
    • Nostalgia is unproductive at best, and harmful at worst. I think it leads to gatekeeper-y behaviour, in terms of people feeling ownership over how we talk about things, or what something should be, or what gender a Ghostbuster is allowed to be.2017, Frank Cifaldi, quoted in Will Freeman, "Save And Continue", Develop, April 2017, page 14
    • Seems like gender transition has gotten easier and less gatekeepery since the last time El looked into it.2019, Charlie Jane Anders, "I'll have you know", MIT Technology Review, Volume 122, Number 5, September/October 2019, page 83
    Synonyms:
    gate-keepy

Synonyms of gatekeepery

Forms of gatekeepery

comparativemore gatekeepery
superlativemost gatekeepery
alternative formgatekeeper-y

Origin of gatekeepery

From gatekeeper + -y.

Questions about gatekeepery

What does gatekeepery mean?
Gatekeepery means engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping.
What part of speech is gatekeepery?
Gatekeepery is an adjective.

Words near gatekeepery in the dictionary

  1. gatekeeper
  2. gatekeeperism
  3. gatekeepers
  4. gatekeepership
  5. gatekeeperships
  6. gatekeepery
  7. gatekeeping
  8. gatekeepings
  9. gatekeeps
  10. gatekeepy
  11. gatekept

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