BUTCH Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

butch

adjective

Definition of butch

as in tomboyish

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Recent Examples of butch There are still so few stories about butch women, transmasculine, genderqueer, or nonbinary bodies—the kind of bodies that have been called monstrous all our lives. — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 Next year the more butch EX60 Cross Country model will arrive for a different vibe. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 21 Jan. 2026 In addition to the co-star of I Saw the TV Glow, there’s also Margaret Cho (playing the hot older butch girlfriend to Haven’s more femme character), Dominique Jackson, Tomás Matos, Katy O’Brian, and more. — James Factora, Them., 21 Oct. 2025 Over the past 3 ½ years, the YouTube show has added some new characters, including Burrita’s mom and an on-and-off love interest, a butch lesbian wolf. — Francisco Tijerina, The Conversation, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for butch

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Adjective

Embrace those tomboyish vibes with a coordinated set like Bella Hadid's powder-blue look, or give them a fashion-forward twist by pairing them with a statement top like Palmer.

— Maggie Kreienberg, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Both those films centered on women whose grim worlds were closing in on them — a tomboyish auto mechanic in Closeness; a nurse and the frontline friend who turns on her in Beanpole.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026

Definition of tomboyish

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Buyers surveyed over the last several weeks have offered a range of projections for the coming NFL season, with some shops anticipating a more modest overall gain for in-game deliveries (+3%) while others suggesting that Big Data will swell the TV numbers by an Amazonian +8%.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The artist, whose name is Luis Alfonso Palacios II, wore brown cowboy boots made with Amazonian fish leather while astride a horse at a 150-acre, 125-year-old ranch and rodeo arena in Lebanon, Tennessee.

— Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025

Definition of Amazonian

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By the end of the 1970s, the band and movemenet were losing goodwill, loathed by both the hip disco cognoscenti and a reactionary macho counterinsurgence that culminated in the vinyl furnace at Disco Demolition Night in Chicago.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 July 2026
No amount of macho beatdowns in the UFC cage matches on the White House lawn will make anyone forget Epstein’s depredations.

— Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

Definition of macho

Adjective

Available starting Wednesday, her inaugural scent settles somewhere between a hyper-feminine floral and an ultra-masculine musk, with notes of peach blossom, jasmine, velvety orris, pink peony and soft ambroxan.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
Salinger reveals Holden’s gentleness, itself a rejection of masculine norms of strength, through a determined honesty that is antithetical to the boasting in which his male peers repeatedly engage.

— Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of masculine

Adjective

The 20-year-old combines a boyish charm with something deeper, turning out reflective tunes full of big feelings and sharp storytelling.

— Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2026
But his boyish face might never be plastered across TV adverts or the billboards of Times Square in the way his sporting peers are.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 4 July 2026

Definition of boyish

Adjective

Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
Jaripeo is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026

Definition of hypermasculine

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