effeminise

Questions about effeminise

What does effeminise mean?

effeminise means "to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to".

How many syllables are in effeminise?

effeminise has 4 syllables and divides as ef-fe-mi-nise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for effeminise?

Close synonyms include feminize, feminise, effeminize, womanize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is effeminise a common word?

effeminise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.