gendered

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gendered

  • /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/

Rhymes with -ɛndə(ɹ)d

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)
  2. archaic, participle, past simple past and past participle of gender (“engender”) "...or some hidden Spermatick power has gendered these both Anchors, Urnes, Coins, and Sculls in the ground...

adjective more gendered · most gendered

  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.
  3. Divided by gender. In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles.

Similar: genderised, genderized · Opposite: genderless

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: grammatical gender, sexuality, sex, sexist, gender-specific, genus, feminine, sexed, sex-linked, masculine, female-centric, androcentric, genderal, genderific, genderic, gendery

adjective

Similar: genderised, genderized · Opposite: genderless

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@misc{gendered_2026,
  title = {gendered},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gendered},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}