as in male
of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with men
some people consider a deep voice to be a particularly appealing masculine trait
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Recent Examples of masculine
Yang then took out a t-shirt that had a picture of Rowling’s face, altered to have a masculine haircut.
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Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 6 Oct. 2025
Set in a medieval Spain, Bad Bunny and Hernandez were seen explaining to a cohort of scholars the reasoning behind why certain nouns were masculine or feminine.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
Republicans responded by leaning into their ideal image as the masculine party, with appeal that cut across racial barriers.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Convincing him to take him along, Veneno is drawn into the hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking across northern Mexico.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
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Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 6 Oct. 2025
Set in a medieval Spain, Bad Bunny and Hernandez were seen explaining to a cohort of scholars the reasoning behind why certain nouns were masculine or feminine.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
Republicans responded by leaning into their ideal image as the masculine party, with appeal that cut across racial barriers.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Convincing him to take him along, Veneno is drawn into the hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking across northern Mexico.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for masculine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masculine
male
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And while Sturm offers a small group of men’s options (the Face Cream Men doubles as an after-shave soother), some of her male clientele seem content to buy the primary unisex line.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
18 Oct. 2025
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But, in 1944, when the field of medical ethics was still developing, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota, recruited thirty-six male conscientious objectors to voluntarily starve themselves.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Masculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masculine. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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