male chauvinist

1. 1.

   a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women

   Synonymssexist

   Broaderantifeminist

Questions about male chauvinist

What does male chauvinist mean?

male chauvinist means "a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women".

What is another word for male chauvinist?

Close synonyms include sexist. 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 male chauvinist a common word?

male chauvinist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.