Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gendered

/ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: gen-dered
IPA: /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)

verb

simple past and past participle of gender (“engender”)

Archaic

adj

Having grammatical gender.

adj

Having attributes associated with gender.

adj

Divided by gender.

Example Sentences

""...or some hidden Spermatick power has gendered these both Anchors, Urnes, Coins, and Sculls in the ground..."
"Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine."
"Not surprisingly this differentiation of children by means of gendered clothing both reflects and reinforces traditional gender representations and identities already dominant within our contemporary society."
"In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more gendered (comparative) most gendered (superlative)

Derived Forms

agendered ambigendered bigendered cisgendered genderedness hypergendered intergendered multigendered nongendered omnigendered pangendered polygendered

Synonyms

genderised genderized

Antonyms

genderless

Rhymes With

rendered surrendered tendered engendered untendered transgendered cisgendered

Questions

How do you pronounce gendered?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/.
What does gendered mean?: simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)

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