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feminine has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its 2 recorded opposites are masculine, neuter.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
associated with women and not with men
“feminine intuition”
befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
“womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion”
1 of the 5 recorded senses carries no synonym, antonym or related term, so it is not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for feminine.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for feminine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female