antifeminist

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ feminist.

Adjective

antifeminist (comparative more antifeminist, superlative most antifeminist)

  1. Antagonistic to feminism.
    • 2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University):
      He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.
  2. Advocating antifeminism.

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Noun

antifeminist (plural antifeminists)

  1. A person who is antagonistic to feminism.
    • 2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism‎:
      This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.
  2. An advocate of antifeminism.

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

antifeminist m (Cyrillic spelling антифеминист)

  1. (Croatia) antifeminist
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