womanhater

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who hates, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women; a misogynist

   His contemptuous remarks earned him a reputation as a womanhater.

A compound of woman + hater, recorded both closed and hyphenated as woman-hater. It is a transparent native-English equivalent of misogynist, which derives from Greek roots meaning "woman" and "hatred."

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