Feminine

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. - Macaulay.
	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. Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine. - Milton. Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy. - Sir W. Raleigh.
(Pros.) See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

n.1.A woman.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.

Noun	1.	feminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
Adj.	1.	feminine - associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition" Antonyms: masculine - associated with men and not with women
	2.	feminine - of grammatical gender Antonyms: masculine - of grammatical gender neuter - of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
	3.	feminine - befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" Synonyms: womanly
	4.	feminine - (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"

affected, amenable, animate, common gender, deferential, delicate, distaff, docile, effeminate, effete, gender, gentle, gentlewomanlike, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, inanimate, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neuter, petticoat, soft, submissive, tender, unmanly, womanish, womanlike

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