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How to pronounce feminine in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms womanly
Derivation feminineness
Type Words
Type of grammatical gender, gender
Type Words
Derivation feminineness, femininity


feminine intuition.
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a feminine ending.
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Examples of feminine

feminine
She says she likes the frilly top she chose because it's feminine and fits well.
From the kansas.com
The jacket is also nipped in nicely at the waist to maintain that feminine look.
From the guardian.co.uk
Don't, though, whatever you do, call this apparent onrush of girliness feminine.
From the guardian.co.uk
Does pole-dancing also signal this convergence of feminine beauty and authority?
From the time.com
Masculinity always seems more appealing when it's tempered by the feminine side.
From the newsweek.com
And it is a female painter who is giving us this audacious view of the feminine.
From the independent.co.uk
She's not there to bring out Gray's feminine side, as one might initially think.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
A female hockey player is not inherently less feminine because she plays hockey.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
But the reason for sitting like a twining vine might not be feminine demureness.
From the nytimes.com
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  • A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
  • Associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
  • Of grammatical gender
  • Womanly: befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"
  • (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"
  • (feminineness) femaleness: the properties characteristic of the female sex
  • In linguistics, grammatical genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few that belong to several classes at once.
  • Femininity refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls. The complement to femininity is masculinity.
  • The female principle; A woman; Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix; Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly; Belonging to females; appropriated to, ...