Feminine /(?)/
Fem·i·nine
Feminine
a.
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Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
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Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.
Phrases & Compounds
- Feminine rhyme
- See Female rhyme, under Female, a.
Feminine
n.
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A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
They guide the feminines toward the palace.
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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. (Gram.)
There are but few true feminines in English.