effeminate
IPA: ifˈɛmɪnʌt
noun
- An effeminate person.
verb
- (transitive, archaic or nonstandard) To make womanly; to unman.
- (intransitive) To become womanly.
adjective
- (often derogatory, of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a female; unmasculine.
- (obsolete) Womanly; tender, affectionate, caring.
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Examples of "effeminate" in Sentences
- I fixed the redirect from effeminate.
- Effeminate men are both straight and masculine.
- Jesus Christ said the effeminate are an abomination to me.
- To the Greeks, men could be made either manly or effeminate.
- I deleted the whole sentence because of the effeminate badge.
- Geary is an effeminate robot and the racing champion of Teknee.
- The effeminate male was a recurring character type in early vaudeville.
- He escapes the submarine while running in a strangely effeminate manner.
- Dionysius describes his composition as tinselled, ignoble and effeminate.
- I disagreed with the description of Jack's character as being effeminate.
- In other cultures he might be described as effeminate and, therefore, be an object of derision.
- It's the "unbecoming" part that leads me to associate the word effeminate with a degree of campiness that I don't believe applies to Renly and Loras.
- If men engage in homosexual act or a homosexual relationship and they are perceived as being effeminate, that is when they are more likely to be the victims of persecution.
- But the male assumes his influence to be normal, human, and the female influence as wholly a matter of sex; therefore, where women teach boys, the boys become "effeminate" -- a grievous fall.
- For instance, the King James Version uses the term effeminate which is an offensive term to describe a man whose behavior, appearance or speech is considered to be more similar to that of females.
- I wonder how much the boys' recourse to "prescribed" externalizations of genuine depression-- particularly boys who have a real hangup about being "effeminate"-- winds up in the form of almost exclusively emotionally abusive relationships.
- The adjectives and derivatives based on woman's distinctions are alien and derogatory when applied to human affairs; "effeminate" -- too female, connotes contempt, but has no masculine analogue; whereas "emasculate" -- not enough male, is a term of reproach, and has no feminine analogue.
- That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans.
- His complexion might in itself be called effeminate, its bloom was so fresh and delicate; but there was so much of boldness and energy in the play of his countenance, the hardy outline of the lips, and the open breadth of the forehead, that "effeminate" was an epithet no one ever assigned to his aspect.