About The Word Effeminate
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Effeminate
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What's The Definition Of Effeminate?
[adj] characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an effeminate civilization"
[adj] having unsuitable feminine qualities Synonyms | Synonyms for Effeminate: cissy | emasculate | epicene | sissified | sissy | sissyish | soft | unmanful | unmanlike | unmanly | weak Related Terms | Find terms related to Effeminate: 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 See Also | Effeminate In Webster's Dictionary \Ef*fem"i*nate\, a. [L. effeminatus, p. p. of
effeminare to make a woman of; ex out + femina a woman. See
{Feminine}, a.]
1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy,
luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly
degree; womanish; weak.
The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage,
became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.
--Bacon.
An effeminate and unmanly foppery. --Bp. Hurd.
2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. --Shak.
Note: Effeminate and womanish are generally used in a
reproachful sense; feminine and womanly, applied to
women, are epithets of propriety or commendation.
\Ef*fem"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Effeminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Effeminating}.] To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds. --Locke. \Ef*fem"i*nate\, v. i. To grow womanish or weak. In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt. --Pope. |
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