hypermasculine

adjective

hy·​per·​mas·​cu·​line ˌhī-pər-ˈma-skyə-lən 

variants or hyper-masculine

: extremely or excessively masculine

a magazine full of hypermasculine ads

… the toy market's discovery that you can sell dolls to boys if you call them action figures and make them hypermasculine.

—David G. Hartwell

hypermasculinity

ˌhī-pər-ˌma-skyə-ˈli-nə-tē 

noun

or hyper-masculinity

Combining macho engineering with the hypermasculinity of the military has wrought disastrous environmental consequences.

—Joni Seager

Examples of hypermasculine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The displays of wealth and opulence, as well as the hypermasculine displays of sexuality. —Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025

Some Republican women who might have considered running also balked at campaigning in the hypermasculine politics of the moment. —Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 22 Jan. 2025

This mindset among far-right Reformed evangelicals is deeply entwined with a hypermasculine virtuousness. —Liam Adams, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025

Putin posing topless is the viral version of this public peacocking, but casual misogyny, carefully staged photo ops, and boastful, hypermasculine rhetoric also fit the bill. —Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hypermasculine

• masculine