Feminine
21feminine — female, feminine 1. general. Female is used as an adjective, contrasting with the etymologically unrelated word male, to designate the sex of humans and animals that can bear offspring and to designate plants that are fruit bearing. Feminine is… …
22feminine — 1. adjective /ˈfɛmɪnɪn,ˈfɛmənɪn/ a) Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly. Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names. b) Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females. Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft… …
23feminine — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Belonging to the feminine sex] Syn. female, distaff, pistillate; see female 2 . 2. [Having qualities stereotypically associated with women] Syn. soft, womanly, delicate, gentle, ladylike, female, matronly, maidenly,… …
24feminine — adjective 1) a very feminine young woman Syn: womanly, ladylike; girlish; soft, delicate, gentle, graceful; informal girly Ant: masculine 2) he seemed slightly feminine Syn …
25feminine — adjective 1》 having qualities traditionally associated with women, especially delicacy and prettiness. ↘female. 2》 Grammar of or denoting a gender of nouns and adjectives, conventionally regarded as female. noun (the feminine) the female sex… …
26feminine — femininity / feminine [n/adj] womanly effeminate, effete, fertile, gender, gynic, womanhood, womanish, womanliness; concepts 371,372,408,648 Ant. masculinity …
27feminine — 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. Derivatives: femininely adv.… …
28Feminine ending — Feminine ending, in grammatical gender, is a term that refers to the final syllable or suffixed letters that mark words as feminine.It can also refer to:*Feminine ending, in meter (poetry), a line of verse that ends with an unstressed syllable… …
29Feminine (disambiguation) — Feminine, or femininity, normally refers to qualities positively associated with women. Feminine may also refer to: *Feminine (grammar), a grammatical gender *Feminine cadence, a final chord falling in a metrically weak position *Feminine rhyme,… …
30Feminine rhyme — Feminine Fem i*nine, a. [L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob. akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to suckle, Skr. dh[=a] to suck; cf. AS. f[=ae]mme woman, maid: cf. F. f[ e]minin. See {Fetus}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or… …
