Antonyms for female
ˈfi meɪlfe·male

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

2. femaleadjective

   Belonging or referring to the sex which is generally characterized as the one associated with the larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made), which in humans and many other species is the sex which produces eggs.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

3. femaleadjective

   Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

4. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   socket

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1. female

   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, feminine, womanish, womanly

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1. • Animal
   • Biology

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1. femalenoun

   an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, priapic, staminate, epicene, hermaphroditic, androgynous, gynandromorphic, unisex, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, pseudohermaphroditic, gynandromorphous, hermaphrodite, masculine, young-begetting(a), intersexual, bisexual, antheral

   Synonyms:
   female person

2. female, female personadjective

   a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, hermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, hermaphrodite, androgynous, antheral, epicene, unisex, gynandromorphic, staminate, young-begetting(a), pseudohermaphroditic, intersexual, masculine, gynandromorphous, bisexual

   Synonyms:
   female person

3. femaleadjective

   being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

   "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphroditic, hermaphroditic, phallic, pseudohermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), masculine, gynandromorphous, staminate, unisex, bisexual, gynandromorphic, epicene, androgynous, priapic, antheral, hermaphrodite, intersexual

   Synonyms:
   distaff

4. female, distaffadjective

   characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

   "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, unisex, bisexual, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, masculine, gynandromorphous, antheral, epicene, staminate, androgynous, hermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), intersexual, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic

   Synonyms:
   distaff

5. femaleadjective

   for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

   "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphrodite, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, androgynous, intersexual, gynandromorphous, epicene, staminate, masculine, bisexual, phallic, young-begetting(a), antheral, unisex

   Synonyms:
   distaff

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   feminine, pistillate (Bot.)

How to use female in a sentence?

1. Covington Police:

   These suspects targeted Wal-Marts and elderly female victims walking alone to their cars in the day and night.

2. Dena Miller:

   How come they haven't befriended one of their white female congresswomen colleagues ? And let her join the group, they don't like white people. Come on ! They're racist.

3. Margaret Fuller:

   Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

4. Maureen Murphy:

   The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

5. Steve Gray:

   Emma Weyant, Reka Gyorgy and all of the collegiate swimmers that had to compete against Lia Thomas— these girls have dedicated hours to learning and mastering their sport, and now they’re being robbed of victories and robbed of rightful victories, it’s just shameful that politicians, the NCAA and others are more concerned with being politically correct than doing what’s right for our dedicated, biologically female athletes.

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