Amazonian

adjective

Definition of Amazoniannext
as in butch

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Recent Examples of Amazonian Miners use mercury to separate gold from impurities, poisoning Amazonian waterways that sustain indigenous communities and endangered wildlife. — Jhanisse Vaca Daza, Time, 6 June 2026 Kambo is a poisonous secretion from an Amazonian tree frog, used by some indigenous people as traditional medicine. — Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 29 May 2026 Drilling down into specific examples where Netflix has had local impact, Sarandos floated Frontera Verde, a Colombian thriller for which 30 of the 150 crew members came from the local Amazonian community. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 May 2026 Colombia's diverse geography, which includes the Andes mountains, Amazonian jungles, deserts and grasslands, contributes to the country's large bird population. — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 3 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for Amazonian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Amazonian
  1. butch
  2. tomboyish
  3. hypermasculine
  4. macho
  5. male
Adjective
  • With their flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group became a pop culture phenomenon, targeting disco's large gay audience with camp fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Gershon’s Corky, lithe and tattooed, ended up being the stuff of butch lesbian dreams — which apparently held true offscreen as much as on.
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 8 June 2026
Definition of butch
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  • Alex, pointedly called Alexa by her mother (Florencia Lozano), who hates Alex’s tomboyish style, works in a bodega and looks after her brother a lot.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Embrace those tomboyish vibes with a coordinated set like Bella Hadid's powder-blue look, or give them a fashion-forward twist by pairing them with a statement top like Palmer.
    — Maggie Kreienberg, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Definition of tomboyish
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  • The pressures to look a certain way — hypermasculine, muscular and stylish, for example, among certain subsets of gay men, can be just as harsh and punishing.
    — Stephanie Fairyington, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
Definition of hypermasculine
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  • The headlong pacing allows nary a breather, though there are enough wry notes, character quirks and offbeat details (remote-control doors, goats, a knife fight on a waterbed) to prevent macho monotony from setting in.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • The macho myth Decades of research undercut Hegseth’s core claim that more testosterone means a more aggressive, dominant, masculine man.
    — Adam Stanaland, The Conversation, 20 July 2026
Definition of macho
Adjective
  • Of the 231 perpetrators, 229 were men; 207 of the victims were women killed by a current or former male partner.
    — Conor Wight, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Both men and women have taken on these roles, although the male practitioners are more prominent in accounts from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
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“Amazonian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Amazonian. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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