homophobic

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English

Etymology

From homo (“homosexual”) +‎ -phobic.

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Adjective

homophobic (comparative more homophobic, superlative most homophobic)

  1. Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.
    homophobic abuse
    • 2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian‎:
      The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
  2. (LGBTQ slang, hyperbolic, humorous) Inconvenient, annoying, irritating.
    My bus left right as I got to the station. It's so homophobic of the driver to not wait for me!
    It's homophobic that I'm not cuddling my girlfriend right now.

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Noun

homophobic (plural homophobics)

  1. A homophobe.
    • 1981 August 1, Ray Thompson, “Down and Out and Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
      Painful as skid row life is for everyone, it becomes doubly so for the gay segment of the population. If you can for a moment visualize yourself living in a house with hundreds of homophobics you have the idea; and there are few closets where one can hide.
    • 2007, William D. Gairdner, The War Against the Family:
      If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic."
    • 2016, Ralph Erber, Maureen Erber, Intimate Relationships: Issues, Theories, and Research, Second Edition:
      When placed in a situation that threatens to excite their repressed or latent sexual preferences, homophobics tend to react with panic, anger, and hostility as a means to avert or deny the threat (West, 1977).
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