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ungenderable

ungenderable adjective: to which no gender can be assigned.

Adjective

ungenderable (not comparable)

  1. To which no gender can be assigned.
    • At the same time, she crossed the boundaries separating men from women not with a cozy androgyny, nor even with the 'glam rock' stylizations of the period, but by displaying a cold and forbidding, more-than-masculine, and ultimately ungenderable hardbody.2010, Steven Shaviro, Post Cinematic Affect
    • A notable instance is the placing of burnt, and hence ungenderable, fragments of human cranial bones inside a complete female anthropomorphic vessel deposited in the Koros settlement of Hodmezovasarhely-Gorzsa […]2013, John Chapman, Fragmentation in Archaeology

Origin of ungenderable

From un- + genderable.

Questions about ungenderable

What does ungenderable mean?
Ungenderable means to which no gender can be assigned.
What part of speech is ungenderable?
Ungenderable is an adjective.

Words near ungenderable in the dictionary

  1. ungelt
  2. ungemachite
  3. ungeminated
  4. ungemmed
  5. ungender
  6. ungenderable
  7. ungendered
  8. ungenderedness
  9. ungendering
  10. ungenders
  11. ungenerable

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