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Effeminate
noun
Word Frequency:
0.7
Definitions
1.
noun
An effeminate person.
2.
verb
To make womanly; to unman.
3.
verb
To become womanly.
4.
adjective
(of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a female; unmasculine.
5.
adjective
Womanly; tender, affectionate, caring.
Synonyms
camp
effete
epicene
swish
unmanly
sissy
sissified
sissyish
cissy
soft
weak
emasculate
Antonyms
non-effeminate
noneffeminate
uneffeminate
Rhymes With
seminate
geminate
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