Feminine
['femɪnɪn] or ['fɛmənɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female.
(adj.) associated with women and not with men; 'feminine intuition' .
(adj.) of grammatical gender .
(adj.) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; 'a feminine ending' .
Typed by Keller--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
(a.) 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.
(n.) A woman.
(n.) 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.
Inputed by Gavin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Soft, tender, delicate, WOMANLY.[2]. Effeminate, unmanly.
Inputed by Juana
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Delicate, womanly, tender, modest, soft
ANT:Robust, manly, indelicate, rude, rough, unfeminine
Edited by Albert
Examples
- It was good logic, good, earthly, feminine logic, and if it satisfied her I certainly could pick no flaws in it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Some of the ladies started back, as if half-ashamed of their feminine interest in dress. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This part of her eventful history Becky gave with the utmost feminine delicacy and the most indignant virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They were not thin hands, or small hands; but powerful, feminine, maternal hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not half a mile, was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She did not look at things from the proper feminine angle. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mrs. Bulstrode was a feminine smaller edition of her brother, and had none of her husband's low-toned pallor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is rather too feminine a fancy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In consequence of this hint, Lily found herself the centre of that feminine solicitude which envelops a young woman in the mating season. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Roma is feminine, said Rinaldi. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Miss Dancer and her feminine graces. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a feminine hatchment, and indeed a few years back had served as a funeral compliment to Sir Pitt's old mother, the late dowager Lady Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The pleading of the feminine--' Mr Fledgeby began, and there stuck so long for a word to get on with, that Mrs Lammle offered him sweetly, 'Heart? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Noreen