Blend ofmetropolitan +heterosexual, equivalent tometro- +-sexual.Coined by British writerMark Simpson in 1994, it enjoyed a brief popularity in the early 2000s.[1]
- IPA(key): /ˌmɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
- Hyphenation:met‧ro‧sex‧u‧al
metrosexual (pluralmetrosexuals)
- (dated) Aman — typicallyurban,heterosexual, andaffluent — who is concerned withpersonalappearance, such as personalgrooming,fashion, andaesthetics in general.
2006 September 18,Mark Simpson, “Long live the metrosexual”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:Reports of the "death" of my Frankenstein's monster with perfect skin, themetrosexual, 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.
- (dated) Aheterosexual man who is seen,sociologically, as having attributes common tohomosexuals.
man concerned with personal appearance
Translations to be checked
metrosexual (comparativemoremetrosexual,superlativemostmetrosexual)
- (dated) Of or relating to a metrosexual or the metrosexual lifestyle.
2012 May 17, David A. Graham, “Picture of the Day: The Metrosexual, Black Abe Lincoln”, inThe Atlantic[3]:But one question stuck out beyond all the others. What on earth would ametrosexual, black Abe Lincoln look like?
2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, inThe Guardian[4],→ISSN:Of course Chandler was the romantic lead. His was the spirit of the age: self-deprecating,metrosexual, all ironic distance, no ambition.
- ^Johannah King-Slutzky (27 August 2014), “A Decade Later, Whither the Metrosexual”, inThe Awl[1], archived fromthe original on31 August 2014
metrosexual m (pluralmetrosexuals)
- metrosexual
- IPA(key): /metɾoseɡˈswal/[me.t̪ɾo.seɣ̞ˈswal]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:me‧tro‧se‧xual
metrosexual m (pluralmetrosexuales)
- metrosexual
metrosexual m orf (masculine and feminine pluralmetrosexuales)
- metrosexual
