antipatriarchal

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adjective

Opposing the patriarchy.

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Meanings

adjectiveantipatriarchal (comparative more antipatriarchal, superlative most antipatriarchal)

comparative more antipatriarchal · superlative most antipatriarchal

  1. human sciencesOpposing the patriarchy.
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    […] a new mode of masculine dominance in which men can demonstrate their confidence and power by suggesting that they are “man enough” to ridicule dominant norms of manhood. It is through these contradictions that Dickhouse Productions carries on skateboarding culture’s process of criticizing masculinity without being antipatriarchal.

    2009, Emily Chivers Yochim, Skate Life, page 115

Origin

From anti- + patriarchal.

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Translations

German antipartriachalisch
  • antipartriachalischopposing the patriarchy
Portuguese antipatriarcal
  • antipatriarcalopposing the patriarchy
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APA

antipatriarchal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antipatriarchal

MLA

“antipatriarchal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antipatriarchal. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antipatriarchal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antipatriarchal.

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