as in genderless
suitable to or for either sex
the androgynous hairdos favored by the hip an actor whose androgynous looks are at the heart of his appeal
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Recent Examples of androgynous
Pat’s androgynous characteristics subverted gendered norms at time, but how is the character be perceived by contemporary audiences?
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
It was soon followed by a womenswear collection, which saw the brand debuting an androgynous look.
—Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The 30-second ad did not feature a car, but instead had models dressed in bright, androgynous attire.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
At least Judge, Daniels, and Paterson left the character’s distinctively androgynous voice (provided by Pamela Adlon in both incarnations of a show that has weathered the untimely deaths of too many original voice actors) intact.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
It was soon followed by a womenswear collection, which saw the brand debuting an androgynous look.
—Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The 30-second ad did not feature a car, but instead had models dressed in bright, androgynous attire.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
At least Judge, Daniels, and Paterson left the character’s distinctively androgynous voice (provided by Pamela Adlon in both incarnations of a show that has weathered the untimely deaths of too many original voice actors) intact.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for androgynous
Adjective
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The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Today’s feminism seems to want this model to be genderless.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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These disadvantages predict that unisexual species should go extinct within at most 100,000 generations.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
22 Mar. 2024
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Not unisexual mole salamanders, which reproduce primarily by cloning and sometimes snatch other species' sperm to kickstart their reproductive systems.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Smithsonian,
13 Jan. 2017
Adjective
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Ferris delivers that speech in the shower while wearing a punk’s shampoo Mohawk, then an ambisexual head turban.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Aug. 2021
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“Androgynous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/androgynous. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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