| 单词 | feminine |
| 释义 | feminine (once / 422 pages) 1adj 2adjn 3adj Feminine is the opposite of masculine. If it has anything to do with girls and women, it's considered feminine. Anything feminine is associated with females. In American culture, that includes wearing pink, playing with dolls, sporting high heels, and getting weepy during sad movies. Many women find the traditional feminine roles to be sexist and limiting, while many men pick on each other for acting in a stereotypical feminine manner. But ideas about what is feminine are always changing: pants used to only be a masculine thing to wear, for example. WORD FAMILYfeminine: femininely, feminineness, feminines, femininity, feminise, feminize, unfeminine+/defeminize: defeminized/femininity: femininities/feminise: defeminise, feminisation, feminised, feminising/feminize: defeminize, feminization, feminized, feminizing/unfeminine: unfemininely USAGE EXAMPLESLast year, Boots reduced the price of "feminine" razors to bring them in line with male equivalents. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The state will also boost the rights of domestic workers and repeal the tax on feminine hygiene products. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Pharrell Williams got in touch with the feminine to help chronicle NASA's forgotten heroines in 'Hidden Figures' Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1adj associated with women and not with men feminine intuition Syn|Ant female being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop fairattractively feminine distaff, femalecharacteristic of or peculiar to a woman maidenlike, maidenlybefitting or characteristic of a maiden powder-puffused of competitive activities in which only women take part masculine associated with men and not with women manful, manlike, manlypossessing qualities befitting a man malebeing the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation butch, machoused of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner male, manful, manlike, manly, virilecharacteristic of a man mannishcharacteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman masculineof grammatical gender 2adj befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman 2Syn|Ant womanly matronly befitting or characteristic of a fully mature woman womanlikeresembling a woman unwomanly not womanly hoydenish, tomboyishused of girls; wild and boisterous mannishresembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman unfemininenot suitable for a woman 1adj of grammatical gender Ant masculine of grammatical gender neuterof grammatical gender masculineassociated with men and not with women 2n a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female 3Hyper gender, grammatical gender a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness adj (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable a feminine ending Syn unstressed not bearing a stress or accent |
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