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Antonyms for feminine
ˈfɛm ə nɪnfem·i·nine
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term feminine.
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feminineadjective
feminineadjective
Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
feminineadjective
A woman.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
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
feminineadjective
Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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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Princeton's WordNet
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, stressedfeminineadjective
associated with women and not with men
"feminine intuition"
Antonyms:
neuter, manly, masculine, virile, macho, stressed, manlike, butch, accented, male, manful, mannishSynonyms:
womanlyfeminineadjective
of grammatical gender
Antonyms:
male, accented, masculine, stressed, manlike, manly, virile, mannish, butch, manful, neuter, machoSynonyms:
womanlywomanly, feminineadjective
befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
"womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"
Antonyms:
virile, neuter, mannish, macho, manlike, manful, male, stressed, masculine, manly, accented, butchSynonyms:
womanlyfeminineadjective
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
"a feminine ending"
Antonyms:
mannish, stressed, virile, male, neuter, masculine, manlike, manful, accented, butch, macho, manlySynonyms:
womanly
How to use feminine in a sentence?
We want to explore that idea further, it's a kind of a gender neutral range, which depending on how it's worn can be either very masculine or very feminine and we feel that's a very modern way forward.
We really differ from brands that are more technical and masculine, our message is more about the design and craftsmanship. The Asian market has been very responsive to our feminine designs, but we don't differentiate the collection according to geography, we're never opportunistic.
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!
[Ads in the 1970s] were very blatantly sexist, in those days, there was no consciousness about the fact that this might not be a good idea or that this might be offensive. So [advertisers] were able to get away with an ad for a feminine hygiene spray that said, 'Feminine odor is everyone's problem.' Or a cigarette ad where a woman said, 'My boyfriend told me he loved me for my mind. I was never so insulted in my life.' Or an ad for a construction material, which showed a nude woman with a sort of large derriere and thighs, and the copy read, 'She's built like all our products ... heavy where she has to take the strain.'.
Transgender people expose the fallacy of the natural dichotomy of masculine/feminine, caitlyn’s transformation makes me so happy on one level, but on another level, it reifies socially constructed and damaging gender roles.
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