adjective. Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly.

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.

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.

intransitive verb. To grow womanish or weak.

transitive verb. To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.

adjective. Having behaviour or mannerisms considered unmasculine or typical of a woman or girl; feminine.

verb. To make womanly; to unman.

adjective. having unsuitable feminine qualities

"For instance, the King James Version uses the term effeminate which is an offensive term to describe a man whose behavior, appearance or speech is considered to be more similar to that of females."

manliness  toughen  

unmanful  unmanlike  unmanly  

effeminacy  

effeminated  effeminating  

corrupt  cowardly  decadent  effete  fickle  

AC-DC  Sardanapalus  amphierotic  autoerotic  bent