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effeminate - 8 thesaurus results
Main Entry: effeminate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having female qualities
Synonyms: feminine, womanish, womanly, epicene, womanlike
Antonyms: manly, masculine
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Main Entry: female
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having the qualities or characteristics of a woman
Synonyms: effeminate, fecund, feminine, fertile, maternal, womanish, womanly, muliebrous
Antonyms: male, masculine
Main Entry: femininity/feminine
Part of Speech: noun, adjective
Definition: womanly
Synonyms: effeminate, effete, fertile, gender, womanish, gynic, womanhood, womanliness
Antonyms: masculinity
Main Entry: mincing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: affected, pretentious
Synonyms: artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, unnatural, finical, la-di-da, too-too
Antonyms: extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: castrated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: emasculated
Synonyms: altered, effeminate, emasculate, fixed, impotent, desexed, unmanned
Main Entry: unmanly
Part of Speech: adjective1
Definition: feminine
Synonyms: effeminate, emasculate, sissy, womanish, womanly, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanlike
Antonyms: manlike, manly
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Related Words
Main Entry: female
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
Related
Adjectives:
female, Sardanapalian, catamenial, effeminate, enate, feminine, gemelliparous, gynecic, gynecocentric, gynecomorphous, ladylike, maidenly, matricentric, matripotestal, matronly, matronymic, muliebral, muliebrous, nulliparous, she, thelytokous, unfeminine, unwomanly, womanly
Main Entry: sexuality
Part of Speech: noun1, noun2
Related
Adjectives:
age, cold, male, straight, AC/DC, Circean, asexual, astride, bent, bisexual, butch, buxom, callipygian, carnal, deviant, easy, effeminate, epicene, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, faggy, fast, feminine, flaming, frigid, gay, gender, hard, hot, hung, impotent, ithyphallic, kinky, lascivious, latent, lewd, liberated, lusty, macho, mammary, manly, masculine, nellie, neuter, nubile, off, phallic, priapic, pubic, pudibund, pure, racy, raunchy, ruttish, salacious, salt, sensual, situational, soft, stag, steamy, sterile, sucked dry, sultry, supermacho, taboo, throbbing, transsexual, undersexed, unisexual, unsexual, virile, voluptuous, wanton, well
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