See Also: Feminine(medicine)
Feminine(health)
feminine(dictionary)
feminine(dictionary)
FEMININE(law)
Feminine Mystique, The(dictionary)

feminine (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin femina 'woman']
having qualities that are considered to be typical of women, especially by being gentle, delicate, and pretty
::Dianne loved pretty feminine things.
relating to being female
-synonym female female
::traditional feminine roles
::Amelia's report describes the experience from a feminine point of view.
a feminine noun, pronoun etc belongs to a class of words that have different inflections from masculine or neuter words
-see also masculine masculine