Feminine
Feminine , adjective
[Latin femininus, from femina woman; prob. akin to Latin fetus, or to Greek qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to suckle, Sanskrit dhā to suck; compare Anglo-Saxon famme woman, maid: compare French féminin. See Fetus.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
2.
Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
Her heavenly form
Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.
Collocations (1)
Feminine , noun
1.
A woman. [Obsolete or Colloquial]
They guide the feminines toward the palace.
2.
(Grammar) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
There are but few true feminines in English.