Effeminate

Adjective

 * 1)  Having behaviour or mannerisms considered unmasculine or typical of a woman or girl; feminine.

Synonyms

 * camp

Verb

 * 1)  To make womanly; to unman.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 134:
 * the studie of sciences doth more weaken and effeminate mens minds, than corroborate and adapt them to warre.

Adverbs for Effeminate
disgustingly; unfortunately; unpleasantly; disagreeably; pitiably; fearfully; weakly; nervously; softly; languidly; horribly; extremely; timidly; infirmly; remarkably; vexatiously.

Thesaurus
AC-DC, amphierotic, autoerotic, bent, bisexed, bisexual, breakable, brittle, butch, campy, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, deviant, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gay, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, homoerotic, homosexual, jerry, jerry-built, lesbian, light, lightweight, mannish, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery, pasteboardy, perverted, prissy, puny, queer, sapphic, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, transvestite, tribadistic, unmanly, unsubstantial, weak, wispy, womanish, womanly

Etymology
From effeminatus:, past participle of effeminare:.

Adjective

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 * French: ,
 * German: weibisch


 * Italian: effemminato
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 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: merchetaidd

Related terms

 * effeminacy

Adjective
effeminate


 * 1) Feminine plural form of effeminato