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misgendering

misgendering is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

misgendering (plural misgenderings)

  1. The act of referring to somebody by the wrong gender.

Forms of misgendering

pluralmisgenderings

Questions about misgendering

What does misgendering mean?
Misgendering means the act of referring to somebody by the wrong gender.
What is misgendering the present participle and gerund of?
Misgendering is the present participle and gerund of misgender.
What part of speech is misgendering?
Misgendering is a noun.
What is the plural of misgendering?
The plural of misgendering is misgenderings.

Words near misgendering in the dictionary

  1. misgave
  2. misgender
  3. misgendered
  4. misgenderer
  5. misgenderers
  6. misgendering
  7. misgenderings
  8. misgenders
  9. misgeneralisation
  10. misgeneralisations
  11. misgeneralise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misgendering (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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