feminine

  • (a) associated with women and not with men
    • feminine intuition
  • (a) of grammatical gender
  • (a) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
    • womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion
    womanly,
  • (s) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
    • a feminine ending

Nouns

  • (n) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

Synonyms

womanly

Antonyms

masculine neuter unwomanly

See also

female

Words of close approximity

feminise feminism feminist feminize
feminineness