Antonyms for feminine
ˈfɛm ə nɪnfem·i·nine

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1. feminineadjective

   Antonyms:
   manly, masculine, butch, male

   Synonyms:
   womanly, caring, ladylike, nurturing, female

2. feminineadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   manly, male, butch, masculine

   Synonyms:
   womanly, caring, nurturing, ladylike, female

3. feminineadjective

   A woman.

   Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

   Antonyms:
   masculine, manly, butch, male

   Synonyms:
   female, caring, nurturing, womanly, ladylike

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

   Antonyms:
   butch, manly, male, masculine

   Synonyms:
   ladylike, womanly, nurturing, female, caring

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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. feminine

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

   Synonyms:
   delicate, womanly, tender, modest, soft

Matched Categories

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

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

   Synonyms:
   womanly

3. feminineadjective

   of grammatical gender

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

   Synonyms:
   womanly

4. womanly, 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, butch

   Synonyms:
   womanly

5. feminineadjective

   (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, manly

   Synonyms:
   womanly

How to use feminine in a sentence?

1. Taylor Swift:

   The Dixie Chicks were making such interesting music and doing The Dixie Chicks in such an unapologetically feminine, imaginative way, i was very inspired by the album' Fly' and the aesthetics, because it was very clear they had really put a lot into the artwork.

2. 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.

3. Tom Wolfe:

   Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.

4. 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.

5. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Shopping, true feminine felicity !

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