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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | fearful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alarmed, apprehensive |
| Synonyms: | aflutter, afraid, aghast, agitated, anxious, chicken, chickenhearted, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, fainthearted, frightened, goose-bumpy, have cold feet, hesitant, in a dither, intimidated, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mousy, nerveless, nervous, nervy, panicky, perturbed, phobic, pusillanimous, quivery, rabbity, running scared, scared, shaky, sheepish*, shrinking, shy, skittish, solicitous, spineless, tense, timid, timorous, tremulous, uneasy, unmanly, weak-kneed, worried, yellow* |
| Notes: | someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, inapprehensive, unafraid, unfearful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | afraid, apostate, arrant, base, cowering, craven, dastardly, defecting, disloyal, faithless, false, falsehearted, fearful, frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious, pigeonhearted, scared, skulking, sneaking, spiritless, timid, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*, yielding |
| Antonyms: | brave, courageous, loyal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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