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womansplain

womansplain verb: synonym of femsplain.

Verb

womansplain (third-person singular simple present womansplains, present participle womansplaining, simple past and past participle womansplained)

  1. Synonym of femsplain.
    • To me, the “Blank Space” video is basically the Citizen Kane of ironic misandry, a fourth-wave feminist fad that Amanda Hess articulately womansplained in a Slate article a few months ago.2014 December 16, Lindsay Zoladz, “The Music Club, 2014”, in Slate Magazine
    • Then again, it might be appropriate after she 'womansplained' to him about the science behind magnets.2018 July 4, James Draper, “Love Island fans can't believe Wes Nelson was primary school age in 2009”, in Mirror
    Synonyms:
    femsplain

Examples of womansplain in a sentence

  • Had a man made this, he would have been womansplained into contrition.2017 September 7, Lisa Schwarzbaum, “'Top of the Lake: China Girl' is Great TV Gone Very Bad”, in Newsweek:
  • And getting womansplained to about the fact that some undocumented immigrants are from South America (wow, crazy, who knew???) can't have helped either.2017 September 8, Antonia Noori Farzan, “Six Things You Can Do Today to Help Arizona Dreamers Affected by the End of DACA”, in Phoenix New...

Synonyms of womansplain

Forms of womansplain

third-person singular presentwomansplains
present participlewomansplaining
past participlewomansplained
pastwomansplained

Origin of womansplain

From woman + -splain.

Questions about womansplain

What does womansplain mean?
Womansplain means synonym of femsplain.
How do you use womansplain in a sentence?
Had a man made this, he would have been womansplained into contrition.
What part of speech is womansplain?
Womansplain is a verb.
What is the past tense of womansplain?
The past tense of womansplain is womansplained.

Words near womansplain in the dictionary

  1. womanservants
  2. womanship
  3. womanslaughter
  4. womanslayer
  5. womanspeak
  6. womansplain
  7. womansplained
  8. womansplaining
  9. womansplains
  10. womanspreading
  11. womanthrope

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