antimale - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• anti-male

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ male

Adjective[edit]

antimale (comparative more antimale, superlative most antimale)

1. Averse to, or acting against, males.

   Synonym: misandric

   • 1979 April 7, Nancy Walker, “NGTF, the Movement, and All of Us”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     When I saw Jean O'Leary for the first time, she was speaking in vehemently radical and anti-male terms at a GAA meeting.

Noun[edit]

antimale (plural antimales)

1. Something that is anti-male.

   • 2018, Bentlee Salinas, Plant Cytogenetics, Breeding and Evolution, page 226:

     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.

Anagrams[edit]

• Lamanite, amential, laminate, malanite

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