masculine

  • (a) of grammatical gender
  • (a) associated with men and not with women
  • (s) (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
    • a masculine cadence
    • the masculine rhyme of "annoy, enjoy"

Nouns

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

Antonyms

feminine neuter

See also

male manful manlike manly

Words of close approximity