Dictionary

unmasculine en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + masculine.

Meanings

1. Not masculine; not characteristic of, typical of, or appropriate for a man, unmanly.
   • A fag is profoundly unmasculine, yet possesses the ability to penetrate and thus render any boy unmasculine. 2007, C. J. Pascoe, Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 157:
   • Fusionism, Hammer said, is “inherently effete, limp, and, as Hillsdale College’s David Azerrad might say, unmasculine.” 2021 December 1, David French, “The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
   • Characteristics labeled as unmasculine or as failure to conform to gender expectations include observable behaviors such as avoidance of rough-and-tumble play, typical boys' games, and athletic activities; no imagining of oneself as a sports figure; and no desire to grow up to be like one's father. 1998, Ritch Williams-Savin, …And Then I Became Gay: Young Men's Stories, Routledge, →ISBN:

Forms

Coordinates

unfeminine

Deriveds

unmasculinity · unmasculinely

Translations (4)

fi epämaskuliininen (unmasculine) · de un­männ­lich (unmasculine) · fi epämiehekäs (unmasculine) · nl onmannelijk (unmasculine)