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 Fem·i·nine a.
 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
    Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.   --Macaulay.
 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
 Her heavenly form
 Angelic, but more soft and feminine.   --Milton.
    Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.   --Sir W. Raleigh.
 Feminine rhyme. Pros. See Female rhyme, under Female, a.
 Syn: -- See Female, a.