antifeminist

American  

[an-tee-fem-uhn-ist, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tiˈfɛm ən ɪst, ˌæn taɪ- /

adjective

1. opposed to feminism and feminist goals or policies.

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noun

1. a person who is opposed to feminism and feminist goals or policies.

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antifeminist

Waters has taken comparisons to antifeminist activist Phyllis Schlafly as a compliment: After all, Schlafly was brilliant and confident and media savvy too.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Wade, and the absolutely enormous antifeminist backlash within which we are all living.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

Backlash politics are nothing new – Susan Faludi wrote about the phenomenon in her 1991 opus Backlash, which described the wave of antifeminist reaction that emerged in the 1980s following the second-wave feminist movement.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2019

This paradox prompted Lydia Polgreen, the deputy international editor at the New York Times and event moderator, to ask: is violent extremism inherently antifeminist and misogynistic?

From Time ● Mar. 21, 2015

We all liked her, and Sperry, Sperry the bachelor, the iconoclast, the antifeminist, was staring at her with curiously intent eyes.

From Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart