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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | girlish |
| Synonyms: | dainty, effeminate, female, ladylike, soft, tender, womanish, womanly |
| Antonyms: | masculine |
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| Main Entry: | effeminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having female qualities |
| Synonyms: | epicene, feminine, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
| Antonyms: | manly, masculine |
| Main Entry: | female |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the qualities or characteristics of a woman |
| Synonyms: | effeminate, fecund, feminine, fertile, maternal, muliebrous, womanish, womanly |
| Antonyms: | male, masculine |
| Main Entry: | gender |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness |
| Synonyms: | common, feminine, gender-specific, masculine, neuter |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
| Main Entry: | petticoat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | underwear |
| Synonyms: | balmoral, clothes, female, feminine, kilt, slip, undercoat, underskirt, waistcoat |
| Main Entry: | epicene |
| 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: | 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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| Main Entry: | female |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
Sardanapalian, catamenial, effeminate, enate, female, feminine, gemelliparous, gynecic, gynecocentric, gynecomorphous, ladylike, maidenly, matricentric, matripotestal, matronly, matronymic, muliebral, muliebrous, nulliparous, she, thelytokous, unfeminine, unwomanly, womanly
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