feminist

noun

Definition of feministnext
as in egalitarian

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Recent Examples of feminist Some people maybe familiar with the Miles Franklin novel, others with Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 film adaptation starring Judy Davis and the late Sam Neill, which has become something of an urtext for Australian New Wave cinema and feminist cinema. — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2026 There was more to Dean’s philosophy, including a nod to a famous Black feminist thinker. — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2026 The character was inspired by Lear’s then-wife, Frances, herself a feminist. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026 Altering your body and face, and obsessively displaying yourself on the internet, was, by many people, deemed feminist, too. — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for feminist
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  1. egalitarian
  2. optimist
  3. idealist
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  • The geopolitics of World War II is not the global order of today; our egalitarians and authoritarians are different, too.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 4 May 2026
  • For most of the National Guard’s history in the South, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial authoritarians, not racial egalitarians.
    — Justin Randolph, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
Definition of egalitarian
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  • YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Bill Gates has generally been an AI optimist.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The rewards Gates, ever the optimist, also outlines some major boons the technology holds.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of optimist
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  • Fairness With Conditions Schulz is careful not to present himself as an idealist.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Doug Gibson, the novel’s closest thing to an idealist, is a pugilistic criminal-defense lawyer, the kind with ads on bus-stop benches.
    — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of idealist

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“Feminist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feminist. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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