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feminine definition
feminine |
Grep of noun feminine feminine feminineness Overview of noun feminine The noun feminine has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. feminine -- (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female) Overview of adj feminine The adj feminine has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (4) feminine -- (associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition") 2. (1) feminine -- (of grammatical gender) 3. womanly, feminine -- (befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion") 4. feminine -- ((music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending") Antonyms of adj feminine 4 senses of feminine Sense 1 feminine (vs. masculine) masculine (vs. feminine) => male => butch, macho => male, manful, manlike, manly, virile => mannish Sense 2 feminine (vs. neuter) (vs. masculine) neuter (vs. masculine) (vs. feminine) masculine (vs. feminine) (vs. neuter) Sense 3 womanly (vs. unwomanly), feminine Sense 4 feminine INDIRECT (VIA unstressed) -> stressed Similarity of adj feminine 4 senses of feminine Sense 1 feminine (vs. masculine) => fair(postnominal) => female => female, distaff => maidenlike, maidenly => powder-puff Also See-> female#1; feminine#2 Sense 2 feminine (vs. neuter) (vs. masculine) Also See-> feminine#1 Sense 3 womanly (vs. unwomanly), feminine => matronly => womanlike Sense 4 feminine => unstressed (vs. stressed), unaccented Attributes of adj feminine Familiarity of adj feminine feminine used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 4) Grep of adj feminine feminine unfeminine Overview of noun feminine The noun feminine has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. feminine -- (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female) Overview of adj feminine The adj feminine has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (4) feminine -- (associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition") 2. (1) feminine -- (of grammatical gender) 3. womanly, feminine -- (befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion") 4. feminine -- ((music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending")
feminine definition
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