straightsplains
straightsplains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of straightsplain.
Meaning of straightsplain
Verb
straightsplain (third-person singular simple present straightsplains, present participle straightsplaining, simple past and past participle straightsplained)
- To explain LGBT issues, people or behavior to someone who is not of a heterosexual orientation (i.e. an LGBT individual) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.
- There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common "mansplaining," describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why.2014 July 2, Rich Juzwiak, “A Field Guide to Straightsplaining”, in Gawker, retrieved 19 Oct 2016
Questions about straightsplains
- What is straightsplains the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Straightsplains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of straightsplain.
Words near straightsplains in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: straightsplains (page history and authors); straightsplain (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “straightsplains.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/straightsplains. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.