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misgendered

misgendered is the simple past and past participle of misgender.

Meaning of misgender

Verb

misgender (third-person singular simple present misgenders, present participle misgendering, simple past and past participle misgendered)

  1. (transitive) To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally.
    • Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.1990, Library Journal, page 9
  2. (transitive) To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.
    • Leonie was always, in fact, the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun, […]2017, Rebecca Schuman, Schadenfreude, A Love Story

Questions about misgendered

What is misgendered the simple past and past participle of?
Misgendered is the simple past and past participle of misgender.

Words near misgendered in the dictionary

  1. misgauged
  2. misgauges
  3. misgauging
  4. misgave
  5. misgender
  6. misgendered
  7. misgenderer
  8. misgenderers
  9. misgendering
  10. misgenderings
  11. misgenders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misgendered (page history and authors); misgender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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