androgynous
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˌændrəˈdʒɪnəs/
- Specialized
- She looked older than her husband and was so stooped and wizened by age that her body had reverted to a childlike androgynous state.
Examples
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In describing these characteristics, Moya signals paradoxically that feminine behavior in boys with androgynous characteristics may be tolerated and even reinforced in this Dominican culture.
Academic text (2017) -
And if I I tend to draw an upper lip on guys when I want a more androgynous little bit more femme look.
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We were not couples when we were first created, all right, we were androgynous beings, but we screwed up.
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And if I I tend to draw an upper lip on guys when I want a more androgynous little bit more femme look.
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Maybe, androgynous.
Fiction book (1997) -
All right, So one set of male organs, one set of female organs, the androgynous ones, you know, man Andros womangune.
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One of the signature pieces is a pre-Dogon wooden androgynous figure from the Bandiagara cliffs that dates to the tenth or eleventh century.
Academic text (2006) -
The model displayed an androgynous look, wearing both masculine and feminine clothing.
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In the art exhibition, there was an androgynous statue that beautifully blended features of both genders.
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His androgynous appearance often led people to question his gender identity.
Synonyms
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9.9
Having a style that is not clearly male or female
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9.9
An animal that has male body parts on one side and female body parts on the other
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8.6
Having body parts or traits of both male and female
An animal with both male and female body parts or colours
Antonyms
How Masculine
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8.2
- Informal
117
6.7
95
3.0
87
3.7
- Specialized
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8.4
148
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
androgynous = androgyny (semi-transparent) = andro + gyn + ous
Built on the same Greek-derived base meaning 'male+female' with '-ous' forming an adjective; the lexical parts signal the sense but rely on technical combining forms.
Etymology
Androgynous comes from Greek roots andr- 'man' and gyn- 'woman', and in biology it points to having both male and female parts. So, in a medical or biological sense, androgynous means a body that shows both kinds of sexual parts or features.