metrosexual
/ˌmɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general.
Dated
noun
A heterosexual man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "Reports of the "death" of my Frankenstein's monster with perfect skin, the metrosexual, have been greatly exaggerated. In Europe and the UK at least, it seems he's alive and looking very well in his lovely new eyeliner."
- "But one question stuck out beyond all the others. What on earth would a metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln look like?"
- "Of course Chandler was the romantic lead. His was the spirit of the age: self-deprecating, metrosexual, all ironic distance, no ambition."
Etymology
Blend of metropolitan + heterosexual, equivalent to metro- + -sexual. Coined by British writer Mark Simpson in 1994, it enjoyed a brief popularity in the early 2000s.