misandrist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry; hating or prejudiced against men.
Example Sentences
- "We cannot, indeed, term her an absolute misandrist, as she fully admits the possibility, in most cases at least, of the reclamation of men from their naturally vicious and selfish state, though at the cost of so much trouble and vexation of spirit to women, that it is not quite clear whether she does not regard their existence as at best a mitigated evil."
- "A misandrist hates all men, and a philandrist likes them."
- "Others support Harmange and Coffin, yet stop short of calling themselves misandrists."
- "According to the LAist, Bartkus appeared to describe himself as being promortalist and misandrist on a website that surfaced after the bombing and could be heard in an audio recording saying, “Basically I’m anti-life. And IVF is like kind of the epitome of pro-life ideology.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English misandry Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English misandrist From misandry + -ist.