Meaning

Of or pertaining to the female gender..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to the female gender.
2. Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
3. Belonging to females; typically used by females.
4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
6. (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
7. (prosody) Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.
8. That which is feminine.

Example Sentences

Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.

Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.

Ninias being esteemed no man of warre at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.

Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.

They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.

These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to dif­fer­ent systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is the vocative case of cat.

Word Forms

• more feminine
• most feminine
• f.
• f
• fœminine
• feminines

Synonyms for feminine

Antonyms for feminine

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When Should You Use Feminine?

Use feminine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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