misogynist
UK/mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst//mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/
misogynist noun: one who professes misogyny; a hater of women.
Noun
misogynist (plural misogynists)
- One who professes misogyny; a hater of women.
- "Confound all women, I say!" muttered the young misogynist.1857–1858, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 327
- Job, like myself, is a bit of a misogynist - I fancy chiefly owing to the fact of his having been one of a family of seventeen - and the feelings expressed upon his countenance when he realised that he was not only being embraced publicly, and without authorisation on his own part, but also in the...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- One who displays prejudice against or looks down upon women.
Adjective
misogynist (comparative more misogynist, superlative most misogynist)
- Misogynistic; relating to or exhibiting misogyny.
- Authors push back against criticism by formulating a boundary so contributors can be viewed as serious, rational individuals, rather than misogynist extremists.2023 January, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic...
misogynist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
misogynist in Hindi
- hater of women
- स्त्रीद्वेषी strīdveṣī
misogynist in Tamil
- பெண்களை வெறுப்பவன்
misogynist in Malayalam
- anti-feminist, woman-hater, (male) chauvinist
- സ്ത്രീവിദേഷി, സ്ത്രീവർഗ്ഗവിരോധി, സ്ത്രീസ്വാതന്ത്യ്രവാദത്തെ എതിർക്കുന്നയാൾ, പുരുഷമേധാവിത്ത്വവാദി, ആൺമേൽക്കോയ്മാവാദി, ലിംഗാഭിമാനമുള്ളയാൾ
misogynist in Kannada
- ಸ್ತ್ರೀದ್ವೇಷಿ, ಹೆಂಗಸರನ್ನು ಕಂಡರೆ ಆಗದವನು
More languagesFewer languages
- misogynist in Malay
- misoginis
- misogynist in Indonesian
- misoginis
- misogynist in Thai
- ผู้ไม่ชอบผู้หญิง pûu mâi chɔ̂ɔp pûu-yǐng
- misogynist in Vietnamese
- người ghét phụ nữ
Examples of misogynist in a sentence
- He was misogynist, he was chauvinistic, he was boorish, he was violent.
- And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
- In the non-romance world, a lot of people refer to romance novels as "bodice-rippers," a term you find offensive and misogynist.
Synonyms of misogynist
Antonyms
Forms of misogynist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | misogynists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more misogynist |
| superlative | most misogynist |
Origin of misogynist
From Ancient Greek μῑσογύνης (mīsogúnēs), from μῑσέω (mīséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”), equivalent to misogyny + -ist.
Words formed from misogynist
Questions about misogynist
- What does misogynist mean?
- Misogynist means one who professes misogyny; a hater of women.
- What is misogynist in Hindi?
- Misogynist in Hindi is स्त्रीद्वेषी (strīdveṣī). See Misogynist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is misogynist?
- Misogynist can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce misogynist?
- Misogynist is pronounced /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of misogynist?
- The plural of misogynist is misogynists.
Words near misogynist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misogynist (page history and authors); misogynist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misogynist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misogynist (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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