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
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.
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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
For the most part, however, the Stranger waltzes around in plain sight, adopting the form of an androgynous teen — their scarred face betraying the wounds of Heaven’s rejection — who baits the Boy into indulging his darkest impulses.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
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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
For the most part, however, the Stranger waltzes around in plain sight, adopting the form of an androgynous teen — their scarred face betraying the wounds of Heaven’s rejection — who baits the Boy into indulging his darkest impulses.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 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 22 Jan. 2026.
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