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feminine - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'feminine' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Feminine [ a.]
- Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
- 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.
2 . Feminine [ n.]
- A woman.
- 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.

Meaning of 'feminine' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . feminine [ a]
Meaning (1):
- associated with women and not with men
Example in sentence:
  • feminine intuition
Meaning (2):
- befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
Example in sentence:
  • womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion
Meaning (3):
- of grammatical gender
Example in sentence:
  • `it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun
4 . feminine [ s]
Meaning (4):
- (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
Example in sentence:
  • a feminine ending

Nearby Words:

female female fern female rhymes femalist femalize feme femeral femerell feminal feminality

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