androgynous
neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: Their new clothing collection is inspired by the androgynous look of many rock stars.
having an ambiguous gender or having both masculine and feminine gender characteristics.
possessing both male and female physical sex traits.
Botany. having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.
Origin of androgynous
1Other words from androgynous
- an·drog·y·ny, noun
Words that may be confused with androgynous
- androgenous, androgynous
Words Nearby androgynous
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How to use androgynous in a sentence
Being an androgynous designer in the conservative Nigeria can be a pretty difficult feat.
Can The Nigerian Luxury Fashion Industry Be Political? | Blake Newby | February 28, 2022 | Essence.comTheir wardrobe grows increasingly androgynous and leather-bound.
There were lots and lots of other action movies with guns in them, but The Matrix was the one that made the sleek look of androgynous, leather-clad weapons experts seem effortlessly cool.
Choosing clothes and a style of presentation that is androgynous or mixed, they can be misgendered all the time.
Consider the controversy over Daybreak Ranger, a seemingly androgynous character.
Is ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Immune to GamerGate Misogyny? | David Levesley | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Haute Butch is one of a number of new design houses targeting the trans, butch, and androgynous dressers.
Look Who’s Wearing The Pants: Haute Butch’s Gender-Blending Style | Nina Strochlic | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill.
This Author Kills More Darlings Than George R.R. Martin | David Levesley | September 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNor has there been a lack of a strange taste in partners, most notably the case of the androgynous Mrs. Simpson and Edward VIII.
Imagining Prince Charles as King Makes All of Britain Wish They Could Leave Like Scotland | Clive Irving | September 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.
Valentino, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week | Liza Foreman | March 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese flowers are still regarded as more or less sacred, and they are called feminine, although really androgynous.
Sex=The Unknown Quantity | Ali NomadFor the androgynous woman despises every approach to coquetry, as she despises all the other insignia of feminine servitude.
The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays, Vol. II (of 2) | Eliza Lynn LintonThe notion of man being at first androgynous, or man-woman, was prevalent in most of the countries of antiquity.
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers | W. A. CloustonIt escaped him as it has escaped later biologists that Man, the highest of the vertebrates, is still androgynous.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyBut to accomplish this work, which we may also call diabolic, isn't an androgynous genius necessary?
The Thirteen | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for androgynous
/ (ænˈdrɒdʒɪnəs) /
botany having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence, as cuckoo pint
having male and female characteristics; hermaphrodite
Derived forms of androgynous
- androgyny, noun
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Scientific definitions for androgynous
[ ăn-drŏj′ə-nəs ]
Having both female and male characteristics.
Other words from androgynous
- androgyny noun (ăn-drŏj′ə-nē)
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