antifemale

English

Alternative forms

• anti-female

Etymology

anti- +‎ female.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

antifemale (comparative more antifemale, superlative most antifemale)

1. Averse to, or acting against, females.

   Synonyms: gynophobic, misogynist, misogynous, womanhating

   • 2009 September 6, “The Daughter Deficit”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     As Das Gupta reports, antifemale bias is stronger for later-born siblings.

Noun

antifemale (plural antifemales)

1. A genetic sequence that produces a non-feminine quality.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• alfetamine