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gendered en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/

Meanings

  1. (of a language) Having grammatical gender.
    • Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.
  2. Having attributes associated with gender.
    • Not surprisingly this differentiation of children by means of gendered clothing both reflects and reinforces traditional gender representations and identities already dominant within our contemporary society. 1996, Pat Kirkham, The Gendered Object, page 103:
  3. Divided by gender.
    • In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles.

Forms

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most gendered Degree=Sup lexicographic
more gendered Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

genderless

Deriveds

pangendered · nongendered · intergendered · genderedness · hypergendered · agendered · bigendered · ungendered · ambigendered · postgendered · omnigendered · cisgendered · multigendered · polygendered · transgendered

Synonyms

genderized · genderised

gendered en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)
    form of gender
  2. (archaic, form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of gender (“engender”)
    form of gender
    • "...or some hidden Spermatick power has gendered these both Anchors, Urnes, Coins, and Sculls in the ground... 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, page 11