antimale

comparative more antimale · superlative most antimale · alternative anti-male

1. Averse to, or acting against, males.

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

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

   Synonyms: misandric

plural antimales · alternative anti-male

1. Something that is anti-male.

   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.

   2009, Vilain E, Rediscovering Biology, Unit 11 - Biology of Sex and Gender, Expert interview transcripts, Annenberg Media