Definition of effeminates Effeminates
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What does effeminates mean?
Part of speech
🔤- effeminates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of effeminate (infinitive).
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- effeminate (a.)
Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. - effeminate (a.)
Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. - effeminate (v. t.)
To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. - effeminate (v. i.)
To grow womanish or weak.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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effeminate
Of a man: Having qualities that are traditionally associated with women. -
effeminate
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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effeminate
ef-fem′in-āt, adj. womanish: unmanly: weak: cowardly: voluptuous.—n. an effeminate person.—v.t. to make womanish: to unman: to weaken.—v.i. to become effeminate.—n. Effem′inacy, womanish softness or weakness: indulgence in unmanly pleasures.—adv. Effem′inately.—n. Effem′inateness. [L. effemināre, -ātum, to make womanish—ex, out, and femina, a woman.]
Part of speech
🔤- effeminate, verb, present, 1st person singular of effeminate (infinitive).
- effeminate, verb (infinitive).
