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In some senses, feminine is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
feminine
/ˈfɛmɪnɪn/
adj 5noun 4
Collocations
4(adj.)
VERBS
be, feel
ADV
really, very | almost
traditionally
She wore a pink dress because her mother thought it looked traditionally feminine.
Definitions
adj
1
Of or pertaining to the female gender.
2
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
3
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
4
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
5
Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
noun
1
That which is feminine.
2
A woman.
They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.
3
The feminine gender.
4
A word of the feminine gender.
These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to different systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is the vocative case of cat.
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Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
Wiktionary02
Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
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Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
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They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.
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These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to different systems, and are n
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Susie wasn't very feminine.
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