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woman-hater

woman-hater is the alternative form of womanhater.

Meaning of womanhater

Noun

womanhater (plural womanhaters)

  1. One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist.
    • I suppose, the gentleman’s a womanhater; but, Sir, I think you ought to remember, that you had a mother: and pray, if it had not been for a woman, where would you have been, colonel?1738, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, page 311
    Synonyms:
    misogynist

Forms of woman-hater

pluralwoman-haters

Questions about woman-hater

What is woman-hater the alternative form of?
Woman-hater is the alternative form of womanhater.

Words near woman-hater in the dictionary

  1. woman-fashion
  2. woman-handle
  3. woman-handled
  4. woman-handles
  5. woman-handling
  6. woman-hater
  7. woman-hour
  8. woman-hours
  9. woman-identified-woman
  10. woman-identified-women
  11. woman-made

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