feminine

feminine is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
2. adjective. 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.
3. noun. A woman.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
6. adjective. associated with women and not with men

   "feminine intuition"

7. adjective. befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman

   "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"

   Synonyms: womanly

8. adjective. of grammatical gender
9. adjective. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable

   "a feminine ending"

Synonyms

womanly

Common word forms

feminines, femininely, feminineness

Words from these letters

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