transvestigate
Syllables: trans·ves·ti·gateUK/tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt//tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/
transvestigate verb: to perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.
Verb
transvestigate (third-person singular simple present transvestigates, present participle transvestigating, simple past and past participle transvestigated)
- To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.
- The poster has transvestigated this celebrity because of her defined jawline.
- Who are transvestigators, and what does it mean to transvestigate?2024 August 14, Quispe López, “How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream”, in Them, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024
Forms of transvestigate
| third-person singular present | transvestigates |
|---|---|
| present participle | transvestigating |
| past participle | transvestigated |
| past | transvestigated |
Origin of transvestigate
Blend of transgender + investigate.
Words that rhyme with transvestigate
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about transvestigate
- What does transvestigate mean?
- Transvestigate means to perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.
- What part of speech is transvestigate?
- Transvestigate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce transvestigate?
- Transvestigate is pronounced /tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of transvestigate?
- The past tense of transvestigate is transvestigated.
Words near transvestigate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transvestigate (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:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-transvestigate.wav.
Cite this entry: “transvestigate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/transvestigate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.