gen x

1. 1.

   the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)

   Synonymsgeneration X

   Broadergeneration

Questions about gen x

What does gen x mean?

gen x means "the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)".

What is another word for gen x?

Close synonyms include generation X. 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 gen x a common word?

gen x is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.