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effeminate 音标拼音: [if'ɛmɪnət] a. 柔弱的,女人气的 柔弱的,女人气的 effeminate adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [ synonym: { effeminate}, { emasculate}, { epicene}, { cissy}, { sissified}, { sissyish}, { sissy}] Effeminate \ Ef* fem" i* nate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Effeminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Effeminating}.] To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster] It will not corrupt or effeminate children' s minds. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster]
Effeminate \ Ef* fem" i* nate\, v. i. To grow womanish or weak. [ 1913 Webster] In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster]
Effeminate \ Ef* fem" i* nate\, a. [ L. effeminatus, p. p. of effeminare to make a woman of; ex out femina a woman. See { Feminine}, a.] 1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. [ 1913 Webster] The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] An effeminate and unmanly foppery. -- Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. [ 1913 Webster] Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Effeminate and womanish are generally used in a reproachful sense; feminine and womanly, applied to women, are epithets of propriety or commendation. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " effeminate": AC- DC, amphierotic, autoerotic, bent, bisexed, bisexual, breakable, brittle, butch, campy, cheap- jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, deviant, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gay, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, homoerotic, homosexual, jerry, jerry- built, lesbian, light, lightweight, mannish, muliebrous, namby- pamby, old- womanish, papery, pasteboardy, perverted, prissy, puny, queer, sapphic, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, transvestite, tribadistic, unmanly, unsubstantial, weak, wispy, womanish, womanly
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