transgressive
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- adjective
- /trænˈɡrɛsɪv/
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transgresor
- The artist's latest exhibition features several transgressive pieces that challenge societal norms.
- transgressive behavior
- transgressive discourse
- transgressive act
Taboos being transgressive, breaking all that crap.
- Taboos being transgressive, breaking all that crap.
- There are the kids who are going to do the subversive transgressive things and there are kids who are not going to do them.
- To be profane, to be transgressive.
- You Fight Club I think was the first book of yours that was labeled as transgressive fiction, meaning violating social norms.
- Also, that might be the most transgressive thing yet until I kind of own that and then in turn see how that ripples out and creates consequential change.
Examples
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Despite his family's view of this union as transgressive, the couple marries.
Academic text (1994) -
There are the kids who are going to do the subversive transgressive things and there are kids who are not going to do them.
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Her image in general and that image in particular is transgressive.
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Her frustration stems from her desire to be taken as a transgressive woman, not as a man.
Fiction book (1993) -
Young men recall funny stories of such transgressive behavior and tell them in vivid detail.
Academic text (1999) -
On one hand, there were the metropolitan Indians, with their painted faces and their ironic, transgressive behavior.
Academic text (1995) -
You Fight Club I think was the first book of yours that was labeled as transgressive fiction, meaning violating social norms.
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Yet the law recognizes only the transgressive facet of Esmeralda's polyandry.
Academic text (2011) -
Dorotea's disguise, while transgressive, is encoded and sanctioned by theatrical convention.
Academic text (2004) -
Invoking the song title involves a reflexivity that humorously points to the transgressive aspects of seemingly mundane activities.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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Acting in a way that is too rude or hurtful to others
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8.1
Very different from what most people accept in behavior or morals
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8.2
Different from what is normal, often in a way people see as wrong
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9.1
Morally and socially wrong to most people
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7.8
Not following rules or expected standards
Going beyond accepted limits and breaking rules or laws
How Transgressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
transgressive = transgress (transparent) = transgress + ive
Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ive' to the verb 'transgress'; the meaning 'going beyond/breaking limits' is directly derivable.
Etymology
Transgressive comes from the parts trans- 'across' and -gress 'to step', so it paints a picture of 'stepping across' a limit. That's why a transgressive act is one that goes beyond accepted social or moral rules.