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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak |
| Synonyms: | drained, effeminate, effete, emasculate, enervated, exhausted, faint, feeble, feminine, flaccid, frail, powerless, sissy, sissyish, soft, tired, unmanly, womanish, worn out |
| Main Entry: | androgynous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having male and female traits |
| Synonyms: | bisexual, cross-sexual, epicene, hermaphrodite, trans-sexual, unisexual |
| Notes: | androgenous pertains to making male offspring; androgynous means having male and female characteristics |
| Main Entry: | bisexual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having relations with either gender |
| Synonyms: | AC-DC, androgynous, bi, epicene, gynandrous, hermaphroditic, intersexual, monoclinous, swings both ways |
| Antonyms: | heterosexual, homosexual |
| Main Entry: | effeminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having female qualities |
| Synonyms: | epicene, feminine, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
| Antonyms: | manly, masculine |
| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait-laced, stuffy, tight-laced |
| Antonyms: | informal, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | sexless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asexual |
| Synonyms: | agamous, castrated, epicene, neuter, unisex |
| Main Entry: | sissified |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effeminate |
| Synonyms: | epicene, feminine, sissyish, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
| Main Entry: | sissyish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effeminate |
| Synonyms: | epicene, feminine, sissified, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
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