feminist

1. 1.

   of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women

   “feminist critique”

Other forms of feminist

plural

feminists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about feminist

What does feminist mean?

feminist means "a supporter of feminism". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feminist?

feminist has 3 syllables: fem-i-nist. The stress falls on "fem". In IPA it is /ˈfɛmənɪst/.

What is another word for feminist?

Close synonyms include women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feminist a common word?

feminist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.