Thesaurus: feminine

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1. a. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
2. a. 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.
3. n. A woman.
4. n. 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.
5. adj. associated with women and not with men
6. adj. female (of grammatical gender)
7. adj. befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
8. adj. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
9. n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
10. 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.
11. j:97/n:3 n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female a. associated with women and not with men a. of grammatical gender s. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable