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feminine 音标拼音: [f'ɛmənən] a. 女性的,阴性的,柔弱的 女性的,阴性的,柔弱的 feminine adj 1: associated with women and not with men; " feminine intuition" [ ant: { masculine}] 2: of grammatical gender [ ant: { masculine}, { neuter}] 3: befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; " womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [ synonym: { womanly}, { feminine}] [ ant: { unwomanly}] 4: ( music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; " a feminine ending" n 1: a gender that refers chiefly ( but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as femaleFeminine \ Fem" i* nine\, n. 1. A woman. [ Obs. or Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] They guide the feminines toward the palace. -- Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Gram.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] There are but few true feminines in English. -- Latham. [ 1913 Webster]
Feminine \ Fem" i* nine\, a. [ L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob. akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^ sqai to suck, qh^ sai to suckle, Skr. dh[= a] to suck; cf. AS. f[= ae] mme woman, maid: cf. F. f[' e] minin. See { Fetus}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. [ 1913 Webster] Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy. -- Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster] { Feminine rhyme}. ( Pros.) See { Female rhyme}, under { Female}, a. Syn: See { Female}, a. [ 1913 Webster] 37 Moby Thesaurus words for " feminine": affected, amenable, animate, common gender, deferential, delicate, distaff, docile, effeminate, effete, female, gender, gentle, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, inanimate, kittenish, ladylike, little- girlish, maidenly, masculine, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neuter, petticoat, soft, submissive, tender, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
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