Stigmatize

Quick meaning: Stigmatize is a verb meaning (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.

Meaning

(transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.

Example Sentences

This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.

Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.

We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.

Word Forms

• stigmatizes
• stigmatizing
• stigmatized
• stigmatise

Synonyms for stigmatize

Depending on context, synonyms include mark, denounce, brand.

Antonyms for stigmatize

Common opposites include destigmatize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include denounce, mark, brand, denigrate, condemn, vilify.

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