Synonyms for feminine
ˈfɛm ə nɪnfem·i·nine

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1. feminineadjective

   Synonyms:
   womanly, caring, ladylike, nurturing, female

   Antonyms:
   manly, masculine, butch, male

2. feminineadjective

   Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.

   Synonyms:
   womanly, caring, nurturing, ladylike, female

   Antonyms:
   manly, male, butch, masculine

3. feminineadjective

   A woman.

   Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

   Synonyms:
   female, caring, nurturing, womanly, ladylike

   Antonyms:
   masculine, manly, butch, male

4. feminineadjective

   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.

   There are but few true feminines in English — Latham

   Synonyms:
   ladylike, womanly, nurturing, female, caring

   Antonyms:
   butch, manly, male, masculine

5. feminineadjective

   Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.

   Synonyms:
   womanly, nurturing, ladylike, caring, female

   Antonyms:
   male, masculine, butch, manly

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1. feminine

   We apply female to the sex, feminine to the qualities, especially the finer physical or mental qualities that distinguish the female sex in the human family, or to the objects appropriate for or especially employed by them. A female voice is the voice of a woman; a feminine voice may belong to a man. Womanish denotes the undesirable, womanly the admirable or lovely qualities of woman. Womanly tears would suggest respect and sympathy, womanish tears a touch of contempt. The word effeminate is always used reproachfully, and only of men as possessing womanly traits such as are inconsistent with true manliness.

   See synonyms for MASCULINE.

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, female, womanish, womanly

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1. feminine

   Synonyms:
   delicate, womanly, tender, modest, soft

   Antonyms:
   robust, manly, indelicate, rude, rough, unfeminine

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1. feminineadjective

   a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

   Antonyms:
   accented, butch, neuter, manly, virile, macho, manful, masculine, manlike, mannish, male, stressed

2. feminineadjective

   associated with women and not with men

   "feminine intuition"

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   neuter, manly, masculine, virile, macho, stressed, manlike, butch, accented, male, manful, mannish

3. feminineadjective

   of grammatical gender

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   male, accented, masculine, stressed, manlike, manly, virile, mannish, butch, manful, neuter, macho

4. womanly, feminineadjective

   befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman

   "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   virile, neuter, mannish, macho, manlike, manful, male, stressed, masculine, manly, accented, butch

5. feminineadjective

   (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable

   "a feminine ending"

   Synonyms:
   womanly

   Antonyms:
   mannish, stressed, virile, male, neuter, masculine, manlike, manful, accented, butch, macho, manly

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1. feminineadjective

   Synonyms:
   soft, tender, delicate, WOMANLY

2. feminineadjective

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, unmanly

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1. List of paraphrases for "feminine":

   female, féminine

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1. Lauren Apfel:

   I do think it's hard for the boys, it's always harder for them to embrace the more feminine clothes, the more feminine toys, as opposed to the girl who's playing with the blocks that nobody really thinks twice about.

2. Peter Pilotto:

   We want to explore that idea further, it's a kind of a gender neutral range, which depending on how it's worn can be either very masculine or very feminine and we feel that's a very modern way forward.

3. Jean Kilbourne:

   [Ads in the 1970s] were very blatantly sexist, in those days, there was no consciousness about the fact that this might not be a good idea or that this might be offensive. So [advertisers] were able to get away with an ad for a feminine hygiene spray that said, 'Feminine odor is everyone's problem.' Or a cigarette ad where a woman said, 'My boyfriend told me he loved me for my mind. I was never so insulted in my life.' Or an ad for a construction material, which showed a nude woman with a sort of large derriere and thighs, and the copy read, 'She's built like all our products ... heavy where she has to take the strain.'.

4. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966:

   What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

5. Arpels CEO Nicolas Bos:

   We really differ from brands that are more technical and masculine, our message is more about the design and craftsmanship. The Asian market has been very responsive to our feminine designs, but we don't differentiate the collection according to geography, we're never opportunistic.