feminine
/ˈfɛmɪnɪn/ adjective C1- Of or pertaining to the female gender.
- Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
- Belonging to females; typically used by females. · Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
- Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
- Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
- Following or ending on an unstressed syllable. · Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.
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“Well, we’re not getting a girl,” said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.
Marilla sniffed, to express her contempt for Matthew’s opinions concerning anything feminine, and walked off to the dairy with the pails.
“No, it isn’t,” said Anne, feminine to the core.
Deep down in her wayward, feminine little heart she knew that she did care, and that if she had that chance of the Lake of Shining Waters again she would answer very differently.
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