retrosexual
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man who embraces traditional masculinity in his dress and behavior.
Example Sentences
- "Think of him as the anti-metrosexual, the opposite of that guy who emerged in the 1990s in all his pedicured, moussed-up, skinny-jeans glory. That man-boy was searching for his inner girl, it was argued. The retrosexual, however, wants to put the man back into manhood."
- "It's been so long I've become a retrosexual."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
retrosexuals (plural)
retro-sexual (alternative)