Synonyms for feminine
ˈfɛm ə nɪnfem·i·nine

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1. feminineadjective

   Synonyms:
   womanly, caring, ladylike, nurturing, female

   Antonyms:
   manly, masculine, butch, male

2. feminineadjective

   Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.

   Synonyms:
   womanly, caring, nurturing, ladylike, female

   Antonyms:
   manly, male, butch, masculine

3. feminineadjective

   A woman.

   Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

   Synonyms:
   female, caring, nurturing, womanly, ladylike

   Antonyms:
   masculine, manly, butch, male

4. feminineadjective

   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.

   There are but few true feminines in English — Latham

   Synonyms:
   ladylike, womanly, nurturing, female, caring

   Antonyms:
   butch, manly, male, masculine

5. feminineadjective

   Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.

   Synonyms:
   womanly, nurturing, ladylike, caring, female

   Antonyms:
   male, masculine, butch, manly

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1. feminine

   We apply female to the sex, feminine to the qualities, especially the finer physical or mental qualities that distinguish the female sex in the human family, or to the objects appropriate for or especially employed by them. A female voice is the voice of a woman; a feminine voice may belong to a man. Womanish denotes the undesirable, womanly the admirable or lovely qualities of woman. Womanly tears would suggest respect and sympathy, womanish tears a touch of contempt. The word effeminate is always used reproachfully, and only of men as possessing womanly traits such as are inconsistent with true manliness.

   See synonyms for MASCULINE.

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, female, womanish, womanly

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1. feminine

   Synonyms:
   delicate, womanly, tender, modest, soft

   Antonyms:
   robust, manly, indelicate, rude, rough, unfeminine

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1. feminineadjective

   a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

   Antonyms:
   accented, butch, neuter, manly, virile, macho, manful, masculine, manlike, mannish, male, stressed

2. feminineadjective

   associated with women and not with men

   "feminine intuition"

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   neuter, manly, masculine, virile, macho, stressed, manlike, butch, accented, male, manful, mannish

3. feminineadjective

   of grammatical gender

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   male, accented, masculine, stressed, manlike, manly, virile, mannish, butch, manful, neuter, macho

4. womanly, feminineadjective

   befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman

   "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   virile, neuter, mannish, macho, manlike, manful, male, stressed, masculine, manly, accented, butch

5. feminineadjective

   (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable

   "a feminine ending"

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   mannish, stressed, virile, male, neuter, masculine, manlike, manful, accented, butch, macho, manly

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1. feminineadjective

   Synonyms:
   soft, tender, delicate, WOMANLY

2. feminineadjective

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, unmanly

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1. List of paraphrases for "feminine":

   female, féminine

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1. Jessica Lauppe-Guy:

   It’s super feminine with sheer and mesh details and eyelash lace that is used traditionally in lingerie.

2. Queen Victoria:

   I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

3. Dawn Holman:

   The low sunscreen use we observed among men is consistent with other studies that found men may view sunscreen as too feminine, and the low sunscreen use among non-whites may indicate low perceived susceptibility to sun damage and skin cancer.

4. Henry Louis Mencken:

   A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

5. Milan Kundera:

   Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!