Antonyms for female
ˈfi meɪlfe·male

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

2. femaleadjective

   Belonging or referring to the sex which is generally characterized as the one associated with the larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made), which in humans and many other species is the sex which produces eggs.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

3. femaleadjective

   Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

4. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   socket

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1. female

   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, feminine, womanish, womanly

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1. • Animal
   • Biology

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1. femalenoun

   an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, priapic, staminate, epicene, hermaphroditic, androgynous, gynandromorphic, unisex, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, pseudohermaphroditic, gynandromorphous, hermaphrodite, masculine, young-begetting(a), intersexual, bisexual, antheral

   Synonyms:
   female person

2. female, female personadjective

   a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, hermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, hermaphrodite, androgynous, antheral, epicene, unisex, gynandromorphic, staminate, young-begetting(a), pseudohermaphroditic, intersexual, masculine, gynandromorphous, bisexual

   Synonyms:
   female person

3. femaleadjective

   being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

   "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphroditic, hermaphroditic, phallic, pseudohermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), masculine, gynandromorphous, staminate, unisex, bisexual, gynandromorphic, epicene, androgynous, priapic, antheral, hermaphrodite, intersexual

   Synonyms:
   distaff

4. female, distaffadjective

   characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

   "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, unisex, bisexual, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, masculine, gynandromorphous, antheral, epicene, staminate, androgynous, hermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), intersexual, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic

   Synonyms:
   distaff

5. femaleadjective

   for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

   "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphrodite, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, androgynous, intersexual, gynandromorphous, epicene, staminate, masculine, bisexual, phallic, young-begetting(a), antheral, unisex

   Synonyms:
   distaff

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   feminine, pistillate (Bot.)

How to use female in a sentence?

1. Patricia Hansen:

   We looked at the data, and only 15 percent of the applicants were women, so we got a bunch of female entrepreneurs together and asked, 'What do we need to do?'.

2. Willie Walsh:

   Aer Lingus recruited its first female pilot in 1977... It's taken 40 years to get to 10 percent.

3. Paige Fiedler:

   That’s wonderful, i always thought that having a female justice on the Iowa Supreme Court would have helped the judges understand what it’s like to be a woman in the work place.

4. Richie Fay:

   Our audience will remain loyal to the film, the great news is that movies play to female audiences, particularly older female audiences, hang around in the marketplace for a long time.

5. Nicholas Reardon:

   At the time I fired my weapon, I was in fear for the life of the female in pink.

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