feminine
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
Types & categories
- gender hypernym
Related & opposite
- feminine derivation
Sense 2 adjective
associated with women and not with men
feminine intuition
Related & opposite
- female also see
- feminine also see
- masculine antonym
- femininity derivation
- femaleness derivation
- faira similar to
- distaff similar to
- maidenlike similar to
- powder-puff similar to
Sense 3 adjective
of grammatical gender
Related & opposite
Sense 4 adjective
befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion
Related & opposite
- unwomanly antonym
- womanliness derivation
- femaleness derivation
- woman derivation
- matronly similar to
- womanlike similar to
Sense 5 adjective
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
a feminine ending
Related & opposite
- music domain topic
- unstressed similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | feminine |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | gender |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | female |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | feminine |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | masculine |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | femininity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | femaleness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | faira |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | distaff |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | maidenlike |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | powder-puff |
| 3 | also see | Related & opposite | feminine |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | masculine |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | neuter |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | feminine |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | unwomanly |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | womanliness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | femaleness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | woman |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | matronly |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | womanlike |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 5 | similar to | Related & opposite | unstressed |