like-gendered

adjective

Sharing the same or similar gender.

Meanings

adjectivelike-gendered (comparative more like-gendered, superlative most like-gendered)

comparative more like-gendered · superlative most like-gendered

  1. Sharing the same or similar gender.

    Psychobiography as a still-developing field will not benefit from being divided into preserves where certain subjects are studied only by like-gendered or like-cultured or like-minded psychobiographers.

    1997, Alan C. Elms, Uncovering Lives
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    Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.

    2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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

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