homophobic

English

Etymology

From homo (“homosexual”) +‎ -phobic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

homophobic (comparative more homophobic, superlative most homophobic)

1. Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.

   homophobic abuse

2. (LGBTQ slang, humorous, hyperbolic) Inconvenient, annoying, irritating.

   My bus left right as I got to the station. It's so homophobic of the driver to not wait for me!

   It's homophobic that I'm not cuddling my girlfriend right now.

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobia

Translations

characteristic of homophobia

• Catalan: homòfob
• French: homophobe (fr)
• Galician: homófobo m, homófoba f
• Georgian: ჰომოფობიური (homopobiuri)
• German: homophob (de), homosexualitätsfeindlich, schwulenfeindlich (de) (colloquial), lesbenfeindlich (regarding lesbians)
• Irish: homafóbach
• Italian: omofobico m, omofobica f, omofobo (it) m, omofoba (it) f
• Polish: homofobiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: homofóbico (pt) m, homofóbica (pt) f, homófobo m, homófoba f
• Russian: гомофо́бный (ru) (gomofóbnyj)
• Scots: homofeart
• Spanish: homofóbico (es), homófobo
• Swedish: homofob (sv), homofobisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: гомофо́бний (homofóbnyj)

Noun

homophobic (plural homophobics)

1. A homophobe.
   • 1981 August 1, Ray Thompson, “Down and Out and Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     Painful as skid row life is for everyone, it becomes doubly so for the gay segment of the population. If you can for a moment visualize yourself living in a house with hundreds of homophobics you have the idea; and there are few closets where one can hide.

   • 2007, William D. Gairdner, The War Against the Family:

     If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic."

   • 2016, Ralph Erber, Maureen Erber, Intimate Relationships: Issues, Theories, and Research, Second Edition:

     When placed in a situation that threatens to excite their repressed or latent sexual preferences, homophobics tend to react with panic, anger, and hostility as a means to avert or deny the threat (West, 1977).