antimale

English

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Etymology

anti- +‎ male

Adjective

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

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.

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