Effeminate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EFFEMINATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• (archaic) to render effeminate
• To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
• To grow womanish or weak.
• to render effeminate
ADJECTIVE:
• womanish
• (of a man) having characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly
• Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
• Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
• having unsuitable feminine qualities
• not manly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having feminine qualities untypical of a man; not manly in appearance or manner

Words related to EFFEMINATE

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Words that contain EFFEMINATE

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How to use EFFEMINATE in a sentence

• He was well favored in looks and build, though somewhat effeminate, with his small hands and carefully shod feet.
• Absorbed in effeminate pleasures, he paid little attention to the internal administration of his empire or to the welfare of his people.
• His hands were delicately made and very white, but not effeminate.
• Indeed most of the scriptures of the world seem even to go beyond non-co-operation and prefer a violence to effeminate submission to a wrong.
• The liquid, smooth, and effeminate language of modern Italy is totally different from the strong, energetic, and harsh Latin used by the ancient Romans.
• He made his art as true to life as it is possible to be, without the rugged realism of Donatello or the somewhat effeminate graces of Ghiberti.
• The perfume of hyacinths seemed to have pursued him, bringing with it a memory of the handsome, effeminate ivory face of the man above.
• His countenance was effeminate, fervent, and artful.
• The official surveyor was a fat-cheeked, handsome man, with a silky brown beard, an effeminate voice, and prodigious self-conceit.
• His Muse was on a peace-establishment, and grew somewhat effeminate by long ease and indulgence.
• But the emotions of luxurious delight or passionate ecstasy deep in their own natures were drawn forth, and sanctified by application to the language of effeminate devotion.
• Except for a slightly aquiline nose and a firm jaw, he was almost effeminate in appearance, his mouth was so sensitive, his hands so white and slender, his manner so gentle.
• The effeminate Sardanapalus was the last of the dynasty.
• But Placidia, his mother, had reared this emperor and educated him in an altogether effeminate manner, and in consequence he was filled with wickedness from childhood.
• It is through the effects of these chiefly that they have been kept from becoming indolent and effeminate.
• She now naturally turned her eyes toward the East, whose effeminate nations seemed to offer an easy conquest.
• He never knoweth effeminate rest Who on the billows delighteth to wander.
• He is but six years old, slender and masculine, and not wronged by long hair, curls, or effeminate dress.
• He was a lanky, effeminate gentleman who never before had ridden a horse, and who was physically and mentally unable to adapt himself to camp life.
• There are also sedan chairs, but as yet there exists a prejudice against these as being somewhat effeminate.
• The effeminate Greeks from the walls of the city gazed upon this sweep of desolation, but ventured not to march from behind their ramparts to assail the foe.

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