Antonyms for more feminine

Grammar : Adj, noun, adjective

Spell : fem-uh-nin

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛm ə nɪn

Definition of more feminine

Origin : mid-14c., "of the female sex," from Old French femenin (12c.) "feminine, female; with feminine qualities, effeminate," from Latin femininus "feminine" (in the grammatical sense at first), from femina "woman, female," literally "she who suckles," from root of felare "to suck, suckle" (see fecund). Sense of "woman-like, proper to or characteristic of women" is recorded from mid-15c.
The interplay of meanings now represented in female, feminine, and effeminate, and the attempt to make them clear and separate, has led to many coinages: feminitude (1878); feminile "feminine" (1640s); feminility "womanliness" (1838); femality (17c., "effeminacy;" 1754 "female nature"). Also feminality (1640s, "quality or state of being female"), from rare adjective feminal (late 14c.), from Old French feminal. And femineity "quality or state of being feminine," from Latin femineus "of a woman, pertaining to a woman."

adj girlish
noun, adjective womanly

Example sentences :

But then, Mrs. Opdyke was an older woman, and of more feminine mould.
Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray

I found her softer, more feminine, more sympathetic, than she had been in the hotel.
Extract from : « The Chauffeur and the Chaperon » by C. N. Williamson

She had propitiated, ignored, eluded the more feminine amenities of fate.
Extract from : « The Immortal Moment » by May Sinclair

I discovered that the more feminine the women the greater the effect the wave has on them.
Extract from : « The Double Spy » by Dan T. Moore

"No one can be more feminine than you are, Dolores," he whispered.
Extract from : « Collector's Item » by Evelyn E. Smith

He would have liked Die to be more feminine and more helpless.
Extract from : « Girlhood and Womanhood » by Sarah Tytler

It completely got the better of the prejudices of education, and turned all her thoughts to a gentler and more feminine channel.
Extract from : « The Deerslayer » by James Fenimore Cooper

Countess--Undo his collar a little; that will give a more feminine air.
Extract from : « Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 » by Charles Dudley Warner

It is a question which is the more beautiful, this ten-mile long creek with its bold scenery or the softer, more feminine Fal.
Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of Cornwall » by C. A. Dawson Scott

You women are different from the women over there—more feminine, perhaps—but you represent something I had forgotten.
Extract from : « The Wasted Generation » by Owen Johnson

Synonyms for more feminine

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