feminine
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
• Hypernyms:
gender, grammatical gender
1. associated with women and not with men (Freq. 4)
- feminine intuition
• Ant:
masculine
• Similar to:
fair, female, distaff, maidenlike, maidenly, powder-puff
• See Also:
female
• Derivationally related forms:
feminineness, femininity
2. of grammatical gender (Freq. 1)
• Ant:
neuter, masculine
3. befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
- womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion
• Syn:
womanly
• Ant:
unwomanly (for: womanly)
• Similar to:
matronly, womanlike
• Derivationally related forms:
feminineness, woman (for: womanly), womanliness (for: womanly)
4. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
- a feminine ending
• Similar to:
unstressed
• Topics:
music
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