Mansplain is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mansplain meaning
To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.
Using Mansplain
- The main meaning on this page is: To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.
- In the example corpus, mansplain often appears in combinations such as: to mansplain.
Context around Mansplain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mansplain
- In this selection, "mansplain" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include in and mansplain and needs to mansplain in detail. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mansplain" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mansplain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
History has not recorded if he did, indeed, proceed to mansplain. (11 words)
Person who set this up needs to mansplain, in detail, exactly what the aesthetic and/or artistic intent was here. (20 words)
And I think one of the problems with feminism is, there has been this belief that men cannot be feminists, men shouldn’t join in, ‘Men, we’ve got this, don’t come in and mansplain’. (36 words)
And I think one of the problems with feminism is, there has been this belief that men cannot be feminists, men shouldn’t join in, ‘Men, we’ve got this, don’t come in and mansplain’. (36 words)
Person who set this up needs to mansplain, in detail, exactly what the aesthetic and/or artistic intent was here. (20 words)
History has not recorded if he did, indeed, proceed to mansplain. (11 words)
Example sentences (3)
And I think one of the problems with feminism is, there has been this belief that men cannot be feminists, men shouldn’t join in, ‘Men, we’ve got this, don’t come in and mansplain’.
Person who set this up needs to mansplain, in detail, exactly what the aesthetic and/or artistic intent was here.
History has not recorded if he did, indeed, proceed to mansplain.
Common combinations with mansplain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to mansplain 2×