feminine
adjective/ˈfemənɪn/
/ˈfemənɪn/
- having the qualities or appearance considered to be typical of women; connected with women
- I feel very feminine when I wear a dress.
- He had delicate, almost feminine, features.
- the traditional feminine role
Extra ExamplesTopics People in societyc1- I don't usually feel feminine.
- Her name fits in with a traditionally feminine image.
- She looked very feminine with her hair like that.
- stereotypically feminine qualities like compassion
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
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- extremely
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- (grammar) belonging to a class of words that refer to female people or animals and often have a special form
- Some people prefer not to use the feminine form ‘actress’ and use the word ‘actor’ for both sexes.
- (grammar) (in some languages) belonging to a class of nouns, pronouns or adjectives that have feminine gender, not masculine or neuter
- The French word for ‘table’ is feminine.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin femininus, from femina ‘woman’.
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