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
The androgynous cut was also popular with women climbers like Lynn Hill in the eighties.
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Jesse Klein, Outside, 27 Dec. 2025
Perhaps the first big style shift of the psychoanalytic era came in the years after the First World War, with the rise of androgynous looks typified by the boyish profile of the flapper.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Her first fashion collection, Psychedelic Jungle, launched in 1981, articulated the New Wave scene’s androgynous, acidic-acerbic aesthetic.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
The androgynous image of that song and of that musical video.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
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Jesse Klein, Outside, 27 Dec. 2025
Perhaps the first big style shift of the psychoanalytic era came in the years after the First World War, with the rise of androgynous looks typified by the boyish profile of the flapper.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Her first fashion collection, Psychedelic Jungle, launched in 1981, articulated the New Wave scene’s androgynous, acidic-acerbic aesthetic.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
The androgynous image of that song and of that musical video.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for androgynous
Adjective
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The genderless product is available in a range of colorways and in plain and tortoiseshell versions, all made in France from cellulose acetate and fully recyclable.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
26 Jan. 2026
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In October of that same year, a young woman from Rhode Island named Jemima Wilkinson claimed to have died and been reborn as a genderless messenger sent by God to save lost souls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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 1 Feb. 2026.
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