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/ˌmɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/ · noun
(dated) A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general..
Reports of the "death" of my Frankenstein's monster with perfect skin, the metrosexual, have been greatly exaggerated. In Europe and the UK at least, it seems he's alive and looking very well in his lovely new eyeliner.
But one question stuck out beyond all the others. What on earth would a metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln look like?
Of course Chandler was the romantic lead. His was the spirit of the age: self-deprecating, metrosexual, all ironic distance, no ambition.
Use metrosexual when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Metrosexual means (dated) A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general..
Common synonyms include boulevardier, dandy (19th Century), fop (19th Century), dude.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Reports of the "death" of my Frankenstein's monster with perfect skin, the metrosexual, have been greatly exaggerated. In Europe and the UK at least, it seems he's alive and looking very well in his lovely new eyeliner.
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