FEMININE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary (2025)

Feminine qualities and things relate to or are considered typical of women, in contrast to men.

Women all over the world are abandoning traditional feminine roles.

...a manufactured ideal of feminine beauty.

Someone or something that is feminine has qualities that are considered typical of women, especially being pretty or gentle.

[approval]

I've always been attracted to very feminine, delicate women.

The bedroom has a light, feminine look.

In some languages, a feminine noun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a masculine or neuter one, or behaves in a different way.

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suitable to or characteristic of a woman

a feminine fashion

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female; of women or girls

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suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly

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effeminate; womanish

said of a man

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the feminine gender

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a word or form in this gender

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feminine beauty

feminine dress

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having qualities traditionally ascribed to women, as sensitivity or gentleness

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effeminate; womanish

a man with a feminine walk

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belonging to the female sex; female

feminine staff members

5.Grammar

noting or pertaining to that one of the three genders of Latin, Greek, German, etc., or one of the two genders of French, Spanish, Hebrew, etc., having among its members most nouns referring to females, as well as other nouns, as Latin stella “ star,” or German Zeit “time”

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the feminine gender

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a noun or other element in or marking that gender