Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

queerize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: queer-ize
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels."
"The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s."
"[…] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term."
"As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing."

Etymology

From queer + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: queer

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

queerizes (present, singular) queerizing (participle, present) queerized (participle, past) queerized (past)

Questions

What does queerize mean?: To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.
Where does queerize come from?: From queer + -ize.

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