effeminate 音标拼音: [if'ɛmɪnət]
a . 柔弱的,女人气的
柔弱的,女人气的
effeminate adj 1 :
having unsuitable feminine qualities [
synonym : {
effeminate },
{
emasculate }, {
epicene }, {
cissy }, {
sissified },
{
sissyish }, {
sissy }]
Effeminate \
Ef *
fem "
i *
nate \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Effeminated };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Effeminating }.]
To make womanish ;
to make soft and delicate ;
to weaken .
[
1913 Webster ]
It will not corrupt or effeminate children '
s minds .
--
Locke .
[
1913 Webster ]
Effeminate \
Ef *
fem "
i *
nate \,
v .
i .
To grow womanish or weak .
[
1913 Webster ]
In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt . --
Pope .
[
1913 Webster ]
Effeminate \
Ef *
fem "
i *
nate \,
a . [
L .
effeminatus ,
p .
p .
of effeminare to make a woman of ;
ex out femina a woman .
See {
Feminine },
a .]
1 .
Having some characteristic of a woman ,
as delicacy ,
luxuriousness ,
etc .;
soft or delicate to an unmanly degree ;
womanish ;
weak .
[
1913 Webster ]
The king ,
by his voluptuous life and mean marriage ,
became effeminate ,
and less sensible of honor .
--
Bacon .
[
1913 Webster ]
An effeminate and unmanly foppery . --
Bp .
Hurd .
[
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2 .
Womanlike ;
womanly ;
tender ; --
in a good sense .
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1913 Webster ]
Gentle ,
kind ,
effeminate remorse . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Effeminate and womanish are generally used in a reproachful sense ;
feminine and womanly ,
applied to women ,
are epithets of propriety or commendation .
[
1913 Webster ]
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "
effeminate ":
AC -
DC ,
amphierotic ,
autoerotic ,
bent ,
bisexed ,
bisexual ,
breakable ,
brittle ,
butch ,
campy ,
cheap -
jack ,
chicken ,
cobwebby ,
crumbly ,
dainty ,
delicate ,
delicately weak ,
deviant ,
flimsy ,
fragile ,
frail ,
frangible ,
gay ,
gimcrack ,
gimcracky ,
gossamery ,
homoerotic ,
homosexual ,
jerry ,
jerry -
built ,
lesbian ,
light ,
lightweight ,
mannish ,
muliebrous ,
namby -
pamby ,
old -
womanish ,
papery ,
pasteboardy ,
perverted ,
prissy ,
puny ,
queer ,
sapphic ,
shattery ,
sissified ,
sissy ,
sissyish ,
sleazy ,
slight ,
soft ,
tacky ,
transvestite ,
tribadistic ,
unmanly ,
unsubstantial ,
weak ,
wispy ,
womanish ,
womanly
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