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hypersexist

hypersexist adjective: extremely sexist.

Adjective

hypersexist (comparative more hypersexist, superlative most hypersexist)

  1. Extremely sexist.
    • Rather, Baraka could see black women only through a hypersexist, black male heterosexual gaze. His Kawaidan philosophy of life endorsed the black male domination of black women.2001, Jerry Watts, Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual, page 240

Forms of hypersexist

comparativemore hypersexist
superlativemost hypersexist

Origin of hypersexist

From hyper- + sexist.

Questions about hypersexist

What does hypersexist mean?
Hypersexist means extremely sexist.
What part of speech is hypersexist?
Hypersexist is an adjective.

Words near hypersexist in the dictionary

  1. hyperserious
  2. hyperserotonaemia
  3. hyperserotonemia
  4. hyperserotonergic
  5. hypersexed
  6. hypersexist
  7. hypersexual
  8. hypersexualisation
  9. hypersexualise
  10. hypersexualised
  11. hypersexualises

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