Feminine

Adjective

 * 1) Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
 * 2) Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
 * 3) Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.
 * 4)  Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.

Adverb

 * 1) Of or pertaining to woman.
 * 2) Having the qualities of a woman.

Noun

 * 1) The female principle
 * 2)  A woman.
 * 3)  Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

Adverbs for Feminine
daintily; sweetly; delightfully; ravishingly; ineffably; seductively; bewitchingly; charmingly; lovably; utterly; provokingly; wantonly; weakly; dependently; irritatingly; clingingly; comfortingly; gracefully; graciously ; altogether.

Synonyms for Feminine

 * : female, womanly, womanish, womanlike, maidenly
 * : caring, ladylike, nurturing, chaste, soft, tender, delicate.

Antonyms for Feminine

 * : male, manly, unfeminine, unwomanly,
 * : butch, masculine, virile, brave, strong, hardy.
 * : masculine

Derived terms

 * femininely
 * feminineness
 * feminine rhyme
 * femininity
 * feminize

Thesaurus
affected, amenable, animate, common gender, deferential, delicate, distaff, docile, effeminate, effete, female, gender, gentle, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, inanimate, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maidenly, masculine, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neuter, petticoat, soft, submissive, tender, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, womanly

Etymology
From féminin:, from  femininus:, from femina:, from. Related to fetus:, feminism:, filial:, fellatio:.

Adverb

 * Albanian: femëror
 * Armenian:
 * Danish: kvindelig,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 女性的な, 女らしい (おんならしい, onnarashii)
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Marathi: बायकी (baayaki)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * West Frisian: froulik


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: kvindelig
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, -,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 女性らしい, 女の
 * Korean:
 * Marathi: स्त्रैण (straiN)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * West Frisian: froulik


 * Armenian: կնոջ
 * Danish: kvinde-, feminin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 女性の
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: femenil, de mujeres
 * Swedish: ,
 * West Frisian: froulik


 * Albanian: femëror
 * Arabic: مؤنث
 * Armenian:
 * Breton: benel
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 陰性, 阴性 (yīnxìng)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hunkøns-
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: נקבה
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Marathi: स्त्रीलिंगी (streelingee)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: boireann
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Dutch:


 * Greek:


 * Danish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: fehérnép


 * Italian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: or
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Femininum
 * Greek: θηλυκό (γένος)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Persian: مؤنث
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: स्त्रीलिङ्ग
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: femininum
 * West Frisian: froulik


 * : 阴性 (yīnxìng) (2)
 * : femení, femenina
 * : féminin (2)
 * : femminile


 * : 女性 (じょせい, josei)(1,2)
 * : banail, boireann, màlda

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) femininely, womanly

Related terms

 * fēmella
 * fēmellārius
 * fēmina
 * fēminātus


 * fēmineus
 * fēminīnus
 * fēminō

Adjective
feminine