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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having female qualities |
| Synonyms: | epicene, feminine, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
| Antonyms: | manly, masculine |
| Main Entry: | femininity/feminine |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | womanly |
| Synonyms: | effeminate, effete, fertile, gender, gynic, womanhood, womanish, womanliness |
| Antonyms: | masculinity |
| Main Entry: | mincing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, pretentious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, la-di-da, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, too-too, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | womanish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feminine |
| Synonyms: | effeminate, female, unmasculine, womanly |
| Antonyms: | mannish |
| Main Entry: | castrated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emasculated |
| Synonyms: | altered, desexed, effeminate, emasculate, fixed, impotent, unmanned |
| Main Entry: | unmanly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feminine |
| Synonyms: | effeminate, emasculate, sissy, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanlike, womanish, womanly |
| Antonyms: | manlike, manly |
| Main Entry: | unmanly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | degrading, dishonorable, effeminate, effeminate cockney, gutless, ignoble, mean, sissy, unmasculine, womanish |
| Antonyms: | manly |
| Main Entry: | feminine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | girlish |
| Synonyms: | dainty, effeminate, female, ladylike, soft, tender, womanish, womanly |
| Antonyms: | masculine |
| 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 |
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