Effeminate

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  • adjective. Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make womanish; unman; weaken.
  • To grow womanish or weak; melt into weakness.
  • Having the qualities of the female sex; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish: applied to men.
  • Characterized by or resulting from effeminacy: as, an effeminate peace; an effeminate life.
  • Womanlike; tender.
  • Synonyms Womanish, etc. (see feminine), weak, unmanly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
  • adjective. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
  • transitive verb. To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
  • intransitive verb. To grow womanish or weak.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having behaviour or mannerisms considered unmasculine or typical of a woman or girl; feminine.
  • verb. To make womanly; to unman.
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  • adjective. having unsuitable feminine qualities
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