beta male
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A male second in a social or group hierarchy and submissive to the alpha male.
Example Sentences
- "Edward Norton's character is the conformist, emasculated, consumerist beta male while his alter ego of sorts, Durden, is the countercultural alpha because he is free from needing or being controlled by women."
- "Not one BuzzFeed beta male met the 617 ng/dL average; rather, all the men testing below the level of a typical 85-year-old male (376 ng/dL)."