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Antonyms for gender
ˈdʒɛn dərgen·der

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.9 / 8 votes

  1. gender

    Sex is a distinction among living beings; it is also the characteristic by which most living beings are distinguished from inanimate things, which are of no sex; gender is a distinction in language partially corresponding to this distinction in nature; while there are but two sexes, there are in some languages, as in English and German, three genders. The French language has but two genders and makes the names of all inanimate objects either masculine or feminine; some languages are without the distinction of gender, and those that maintain it are often quite arbitrary in its application. We speak of the masculine or feminine gender, the male or female sex.

    Synonyms:
    sex

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 7 votes

  1. gender, grammatical gendernoun

    a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

    Synonyms:
    grammatical gender, sex, sexuality

  2. sex, gender, sexualitynoun

    the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

    "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

    Synonyms:
    sexual urge, grammatical gender, sexuality, sex, sexual practice, sexual activity, sex activity

How to use gender in a sentence?

  1. Jean Malpas:

    Pride Is For Kids, Too. gFP and the participating families very much hope that such a positive demonstration of pride and support for gender nonconforming children and transgender adolescents will inspire other families to provide the supportive and caring environment these children need to live happy lives.

  2. Tyler Ohta:

    This policy actually goes way beyond that and into promoting and indoctrinating and mandating, compelling speech. Actually violating First Amendment speech rights, forcing children as young as five years old to be responsible for their peers’ pronouns, their gender identity, it’s just unfair to children to expect them to know these things and to be following them along each day as gender is apparently fluid, so they could be changing each day.

  3. Bridget Sharpe:

    Regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, students in Arizona deserve to have access to high-quality sex education and information about LGBTQ history, literature, and current events, this veto will protect LGBTQ children and ensure every student has access to enriching educational materials that tell the story of LGBTQ people in this country.

  4. Jeffrey Spiegel:

    There is no treatment that makes a person’s brain match their external appearance, but they can make their external appearance match their internal feelings, transsexuals want to be seen as the gender they feel inside.

  5. Jeffrey Lowe:

    It's a bigger issue than just the legal industry, it just seems like no matter what industry you look at, you have these kinds of [ gender pay gap ] issues.

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