Effeminate

a.	1.	Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. - Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. - Bp. Hurd.
	2.	Womanlike; womanly; tender; - in a good sense. Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. [imp. & p. p. Effeminated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Effeminating .] It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds. - Locke.
v. i.	1.	To grow womanish or weak. In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt. - Pope.

Adj.	1.	effeminate - having unsuitable feminine qualities Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish, epicene
	2.	effeminate - characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an effeminate civilization" Synonyms: weak

AC-DC, amphierotic, autoerotic, bent, bisexed, bisexual, breakable, brittle, butch, campy, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, deviant, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gay, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, homoerotic, homosexual, jerry, jerry-built, lesbian, light, lightweight, mannish, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery, pasteboardy, perverted, prissy, puny, queer, sapphic, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, transvestite, tribadistic, unmanly, unsubstantial, weak, wispy, womanish, womanly

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