emasculate

1. 1.

   having unsuitable feminine qualities

   Synonymseffeminateepicenecissysissifiedsissyishsissy

   Similarunmanly

Other forms of emasculate

past tense

emasculated·

present participle

emasculating·

third person

emasculates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about emasculate

What does emasculate mean?

emasculate means "deprive of strength or vigor". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emasculate?

emasculate has 4 syllables: e-mas-cu-late. The stress falls on "mas". In IPA it is /əˈmæskjulɪt/.

What is another word for emasculate?

Close synonyms include castrate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise, effeminate. 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 emasculate a common word?

emasculate 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.