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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.
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It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds.
--Locke.
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Effeminate \Ef*fem"i*nate\, v. i.
To grow womanish or weak.
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In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and
manners corrupt. --Pope.
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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.
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The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage,
became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.
--Bacon.
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An effeminate and unmanly foppery. --Bp. Hurd.
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2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
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Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. --Shak.
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Note: Effeminate and womanish are generally used in a
reproachful sense; feminine and womanly, applied to
women, are epithets of propriety or commendation.
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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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