say it: ee-FEM-i-nuht
effeminate is an adjective meaning "having unsuitable feminine qualities". It is pronounced /iˈfɛmɪnət/ — ee-FEM-i-nuht. It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for effeminate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.