homophobe

noun

ho·​mo·​phobe ˈhō-mə-ˌfōb How to pronounce homophobe (audio)
: a person characterized by homophobia

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Conflict comes from surprising places in Floyd’s script (where fellow gays prove every bit as dangerous as homophobes), slowing things down once again. Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 July 2025 My mother is a duplicitous, bitter woman and my father is a weak-willed, hateful homophobe. R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 17 July 2025 What a perfectly succinct reminder how to respond to the fascists, to the TERFs and homophobes and reactionaries, to those who would let our world end rather than change for the better. Lex McMenamin, Them, 16 Jan. 2025 Elaine thought Forster was a misogynist, and Simon thought Woolf was a homophobe. Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for homophobe

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of homophobe was in 1964

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“Homophobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homophobe. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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