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词汇 androgynous
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Definition of androgynous in English:

androgynous

adjective anˈdrɒdʒɪnəsænˈdrɑdʒənəs
  • 1Partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex.

    (外表)半男半女的;(性别)难定的

    a stunningly androgynous dancer
    he used surgery and cosmetics to make his face look pasty and bizarrely androgynous
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Aquarians are known for their androgynous physique and from certain angles she appears to have the body of a man with broad shoulders, strong biceps and narrow hips.
    • A celebrity in his own right for his androgynous appearance and interesting personality, his works are defined by uniquely loose and symmetrical patterns.
    • A round-faced chef of indeterminate gender was very imperiously ordering around another androgynous person in a karate uniform, while some lady chopped carrots for no discernible reason.
    • It is, after all, an environment in which genres featuring androgynous males have a long-standing tradition.
    • Its dancers are fashionably androgynous in their costuming, and the richly textured music, played live by the Grupo Mahera, reflects the current Spanish concern for fusion of musical roots.
    • With the correct coaching, it may suit the Royal far better, although the standardisation of female ballet bodies trained mostly for androgynous athleticism has almost put the delicacies of the Bournonville style out of reach.
    • Because the publishing industry of the early and middle nineteenth century spurned female writers, Charlotte Bronte chose to work under the androgynous pseudonym Currier Bell.
    • Watch out for the odd appearance of Satan himself - slightly androgynous, bookish-looking and smooth-talking.
    • His photograph depicts an androgynous figure (perhaps the artist), eyes shut, wearing white pancake make-up and draped in the American flag.
    • It was confirmed that the gender of Casey was indeed male, despite his androgynous and ever-youthful appearance.
    • He suspects that younger men brought up with more androgynous gender roles will score lower in normative male alexithymia, while older men raised in more traditional ways will score higher.
    • Previous female superheroes have been masculine or androgynous cyphers played by a female leads in manga-like, sexless action sequences that reduce them almost to mindless puppets.
    • With her strong nose and thin, rangy frame, she's still androgynous, but her appearance, 30 years on, now has something of a ‘ragged glory’ aura.
    • The films featuring Marlene Dietrich add the paradox of the dazzling yet androgynous female who is simultaneously moral and amoral, eminently proper yet irredeemably decadent.
    1. 1.1dated Having the physical characteristics of both sexes; hermaphrodite.
      Synonyms
      hermaphroditic, epicene

Derivatives

  • androgynously

  • adverb
    • Kibbutz parents agreed to see their own children only two hours a day, and for the remaining 22 hours to surrender them to the collective, which would raise them androgynously (trying more to "masculinize" women than "feminize" men).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He stands 6'5" and is androgynously thin.
      • She appears onstage with short hair, dressed androgynously in pants and a loose shirt.
      • Universally dark-haired, skinny and androgynously pretty, The Organ look at first sight like a female Strokes.
      • One of the first and most significant experiences Genesis ever had was felt as a child of the early '60s, when he first witnessed a group of androgynously dressed mods traipsing through Manchester's Piccadilly Station.
  • androgyny

  • noun anˈdrɒdʒɪniænˈdrɑdʒ(ə)ni
    • If androgyny proved unattainable in a small socialist society whose citizens self-selected for radical feminist convictions, how could one bring it about in contemporary America, where most people don't want it?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What's wrong with a little - or a lot of - androgyny anyway?
      • The androgyny of today, where everything is unisex and uniform, destroys culture by divorcing it from the reality of human existence.
      • The Melbourne Writers Centre is dominated by women who will only tolerate strangely docile feminised men, who build towards an androgyny and collaborate in a general ‘dumbing down’ of the male.
      • Almond's heavy eyeliner and camp androgyny made middle-aged men, in particular, so uneasy that they suddenly discovered pressing engagements in their potting sheds.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin androgynus (see androgyne) + -ous.

Rhymes

autogenous, endogenous, erogenous, exogenous, homogenous, hydrogenous, misogynous

Definition of androgynous in US English:

androgynous

adjectiveanˈdräjənəsænˈdrɑdʒənəs
  • 1Partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex.

    (外表)半男半女的;(性别)难定的

    a stunningly androgynous dancer
    he used surgery and cosmetics to make his face look pasty and bizarrely androgynous
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Watch out for the odd appearance of Satan himself - slightly androgynous, bookish-looking and smooth-talking.
    • Previous female superheroes have been masculine or androgynous cyphers played by a female leads in manga-like, sexless action sequences that reduce them almost to mindless puppets.
    • Aquarians are known for their androgynous physique and from certain angles she appears to have the body of a man with broad shoulders, strong biceps and narrow hips.
    • It was confirmed that the gender of Casey was indeed male, despite his androgynous and ever-youthful appearance.
    • A round-faced chef of indeterminate gender was very imperiously ordering around another androgynous person in a karate uniform, while some lady chopped carrots for no discernible reason.
    • The films featuring Marlene Dietrich add the paradox of the dazzling yet androgynous female who is simultaneously moral and amoral, eminently proper yet irredeemably decadent.
    • Because the publishing industry of the early and middle nineteenth century spurned female writers, Charlotte Bronte chose to work under the androgynous pseudonym Currier Bell.
    • Its dancers are fashionably androgynous in their costuming, and the richly textured music, played live by the Grupo Mahera, reflects the current Spanish concern for fusion of musical roots.
    • With her strong nose and thin, rangy frame, she's still androgynous, but her appearance, 30 years on, now has something of a ‘ragged glory’ aura.
    • A celebrity in his own right for his androgynous appearance and interesting personality, his works are defined by uniquely loose and symmetrical patterns.
    • His photograph depicts an androgynous figure (perhaps the artist), eyes shut, wearing white pancake make-up and draped in the American flag.
    • With the correct coaching, it may suit the Royal far better, although the standardisation of female ballet bodies trained mostly for androgynous athleticism has almost put the delicacies of the Bournonville style out of reach.
    • It is, after all, an environment in which genres featuring androgynous males have a long-standing tradition.
    • He suspects that younger men brought up with more androgynous gender roles will score lower in normative male alexithymia, while older men raised in more traditional ways will score higher.
    1. 1.1dated Having the physical characteristics of both sexes; hermaphrodite.
      Synonyms
      hermaphroditic, epicene

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin androgynus (see androgyne) + -ous.

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