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/ˈwʊm.əˌnaɪ.zəɹ/ · noun
A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women..
A couple of months ago, in a piece about the language of self-involvement, I quoted a girlfriend of Woody Allen as having described the actor as “very much of a womanizer, very self-involved”.
Sometimes the stereotype is framed as light and cheeky—think the “boys will be boys” mentality exemplified by sitcom womanizers such as How I Met Your Mothers Barney Stinson or '''Two and a Half Mens Charlie Harper.
Getting back into the dating game after a painful divorce is never easy, and the proliferation of womanizers looking to take advantage of your vulnerability only makes things worse.
Use womanizer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Womanizer means A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women..
Common synonyms include bounder, cad, Casanova, lady's man.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A couple of months ago, in a piece about the language of self-involvement, I quoted a girlfriend of Woody Allen as having described the actor as “very much of a womanizer, very self-involved”.
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