ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Retrosexual

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Retrosexual is a noun meaning A man who embraces traditional masculinity in his dress and behavior.

Meaning

A man who embraces traditional masculinity in his dress and behavior.

More Meanings

  1. (humorous) One who has not had sex in a very long time.

Example Sentences

It's been so long I've become a retrosexual.
Think of him as the anti-metrosexual, the opposite of that guy who emerged in the 1990s in all his pedicured, moussed-up, skinny-jeans glory. That man-boy was searching for his inner girl, it was argued. The retrosexual, however, wants to put the man back into manhood.

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Related dictionary entries include machosexual, metrosexual, ubersexual, retrophile, reversionist, androphile.

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