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[syn: womanly, feminine]
4. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;
- Example: "a feminine ending"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, n.
1. A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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They guide the feminines toward the palace.
--Hakluyt.
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2. (Gram.) 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.
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There are but few true feminines in English.
--Latham.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, a. [L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob.
akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to
suckle, Skr. dh[=a] to suck; cf. AS. f[=ae]mme woman, maid:
cf. F. f['e]minin. See Fetus.]
1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic
of a woman; womanish; womanly.
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Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine
ease and grace. --Macaulay.
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2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate
to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful,
affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak,
nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
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Her heavenly form
Angelic, but more soft and feminine. --Milton.
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Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but
altogether feminine, and subject to ease and
delicacy. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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Feminine rhyme. (Pros.) See Female rhyme, under Female,
a.
Syn: See Female, a.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
feminine
adj 1: associated with women and not with men; "feminine
intuition" [ant: masculine]
2: of grammatical gender [ant: masculine, neuter]
3: befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature
woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [syn:
womanly, feminine] [ant: unwomanly]
4: (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;
"a feminine ending"
n 1: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to
females or to objects classified as female
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "feminine":
affected, amenable, animate, common gender, deferential, delicate,
distaff, docile, effeminate, effete, female, gender, gentle,
gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, inanimate,
kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maidenly, masculine, matronal,
matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neuter, petticoat, soft,
submissive, tender, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, womanly