feminine

The definition of feminine is something or someone showing characteristics traditionally associated with being female.

(adjective)

Sewing and cooking are examples of hobbies that were traditionally described as feminine hobbies.
Soft pink dresses are an example of clothes that would be described as feminine clothes.

Feminine is defined as the female gender.

(noun)

An example of feminine is the female sex.

See feminine in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

female; of women or girls
having qualities regarded as characteristic of women and girls, as gentleness, weakness, delicacy, or modesty
suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly
effeminate; womanish: said of a man
Gram. designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting, or referring to, females as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed
Music designating or of a cadence ending on an unaccented note or chord
Prosody
1. ending with an unstressed syllable, as a line of verse
2. designating or of a rhyme in which the rhyming elements have two, or sometimes three, syllables of which only the first is stressed (Ex.: danger, stranger)

Origin: ME < OFr < L femininus < femina, woman

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See feminine in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of or relating to women or girls. See Synonyms at female.
Characterized by or possessing qualities generally attributed to a woman.
Effeminate; womanish.
Grammar Designating or belonging to the gender of words or grammatical forms that refer chiefly to females or to things classified as female.

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