Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antimale

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-male
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Averse to, or acting against, males.

noun

Something that is anti-male.

Example Sentences

"When I saw Jean O'Leary for the first time, she was speaking in vehemently radical and anti-male terms at a GAA meeting."
"We [are] entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simply linear pathway of genes going one after the other."

Etymology

From anti- + male.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

more antimale (comparative) most antimale (superlative) anti-male (alternative) antimales (plural)

Synonyms

misandric

Questions

What does antimale mean?: Averse to, or acting against, males.
Where does antimale come from?: From anti- + male.

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