gender-specifically

adverb

In a gender-specific manner.

Meanings

adverbgender-specifically (comparative more gender-specifically, superlative most gender-specifically)

comparative more gender-specifically · superlative most gender-specifically

  1. In a gender-specific manner.

    The first case opens with the phrase אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי, which may be understood either inclusively (everyone who) or gender-specifically (every man who).

    2017, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15, T&T Clark, published 2022, →ISBN, page 59
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    Christine Todd Whitman is not “one of the boys,” not just gender-specifically speaking, but philosophically speaking. Mrs. Whitman may be misguided, but she is sincere. The boys are out for themselves.

    1993 October 6, John Turner, “A theory about the ‘big boys’ behind Christie”, in The Courier-News, page A-11

    Now, we weren’t talking about imports who only wear Oil Barons colours for a couple of seasons and then move on, but kids, or more gender-specifically, males who went through the minor hockey system and have roots planted firmly in the local tarsands.

    2006 November 25, Curtis Phillips, “Who’s on your top ten list?”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 10, number 47, page 12

    Despite the shoes, sunglasses and jewelry openly displayed, Ali claims her taste isn’t overly feminine, calling her home the “not-too-girly” house. “If I get one girly thing, then I get one masculine thing,” she says. But even if she lived alone, Ali wouldn’t decorate too gender-specifically. “My whole concept is traditional with a modern, clean twist,” she says.

    2013 August 7, Andrea Darr, “at home with Ali Bronska”, in Ink, volume 6, number 20, page 18

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

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MLA

“gender-specifically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gender-specifically. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gender-specifically,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gender-specifically.

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