Thesaurus:man
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: an adult male human
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- bloke (UK & Aus, slang)
- boy [⇒ thesaurus] (often derogatory)
- bro
- broski (slang)
- bruh (slang)
- cat [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, AAVE)
- chap (dated, UK, slang)
- chappy (dated, UK, slang)
- chield
- cove (archaic, UK)
- covey (dated, UK)
- dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dawg (AAVE)
- dude (slang)
- fella (slang)
- fellow
- gadgie (Scotland, Tyneside, Mackem, Teesside)
- gate (dated, jive talk)
- geezer
- gink (slang)
- gloak (Southern England, slang)
- gome (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England)
- guy (colloquial)
- health (obsolete)
- homeboy (AAVE, affectionate)
- homey (AAVE, affectionate)
- lede (obsolete)
- nigga (AAVE, possibly highly offensive)
- ninja (uncommon slang)
- pillicock (affectionate slang, obsolete)
- punk (dated rare slang)
- rooster (NZ, slang)
- seg (archaic or Britain dialectal)
- shalk (obselete or Britain dialectal)
- wallah (dated, UK, slang)
- wer, were (obsolete)
- wye (poetic, obsolete)
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- beautiful man [⇒ thesaurus]
- blighter (pejorative UK slang)
- boy [⇒ thesaurus] (sometimes pejorative or racial slur)
- boyo (UK slang)
- dandy [⇒ thesaurus]
- effeminate man [⇒ thesaurus]
- eunuch
- father [⇒ thesaurus]
- gay man [⇒ thesaurus]
- husband [⇒ thesaurus]
- hypermasculine man [⇒ thesaurus]
- old man [⇒ thesaurus]
- promiscuous man [⇒ thesaurus]
- son [⇒ thesaurus] (possibly affectionate or pejorative)
- sonny (usually affectionate)
- ugly man [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “373. man” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “man” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.