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Feminine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Feminine has 1 sense
- feminine(n = noun.communication) Array - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female; Array is a kind of gender, grammatical gender
Derived form adjective feminine2
Adjective Feminine has 4 senses
- feminine(a = adj.all) Array - associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition" Derived forms noun feminineness1, noun femininity1
- feminine(a = adj.all) Array - of grammatical gender; Array Derived form noun feminine1
- feminine(a = adj.all) womanly - befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" Derived form noun feminineness1
- feminine(s = adj.all) Array - (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"
Antonym: masculine
Antonyms: masculine, neuter
CIDE DICTIONARY
Feminine, a. [L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob. akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to suckle, Skr. dhā to suck; cf. AS. f\'d6mme woman, maid: cf. F. féminin. See Fetus.].
- Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. [1913 Webster]"Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace." [1913 Webster]
- Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. [1913 Webster]"Her heavenly form
Angelic, but more soft and feminine." [1913 Webster]"Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Female, a.
Feminine, n.
- A woman. [1913 Webster]"They guide the feminines toward the palace." [1913 Webster]
- Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as,
actress ,songstress ,abbess ,executrix . [1913 Webster]"There are but few true feminines in English." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Feminine, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of women.
2 having qualities associated with women.
3 womanly, effeminate.
4 Gram. of or denoting the gender proper to women's names.
--n. Gram. a feminine gender or word.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of women.
2 having qualities associated with women.
3 womanly, effeminate.
4 Gram. of or denoting the gender proper to women's names.
--n. Gram. a feminine gender or word.
Derivative
femininely adv. feminineness n. femininity n.
Etymology
ME f. OF feminin -ine or L femininus f. femina woman
THESAURUS
Feminine
affected, amenable, animate, common gender, deferential, delicate, distaff, docile, effeminate, effete, female, gender, gentle, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, inanimate, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maidenly, masculine, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neuter, petticoat, soft, submissive, tender, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, womanlyROGET THESAURUS
Feminine
Woman
N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.
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