| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Effeminate.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb effeminate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (effeminately) | 1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.[Websters]. 2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman.[Websters]. 3. In a ladylike or feminine manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a weak or slack manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a soft, tender, mild, lax or lithe manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a girlish or womanish manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a delicate, mellow, sensitive or tenuous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a flaccid, loose or nerveless manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a limp or powerless manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective effeminate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (effeminate) | 1. To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.[Websters]. 2. To grow womanish or weak.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: effeminating, effeminated, effeminates, effeminater, effeminaters, effeminatingly and effeminatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"EFFEMINATED" is a common misspelling or typo for: effeminates. |
Date "EFFEMINATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: effeminate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Having the qualities of the female sex; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; tender; womanish; voluptuous. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.. | 2: [Adjective] Womanish; weak; resembling the practice or qualities of the sex; as an effeminate peace; an effeminate life.. | 3: [Adjective] Womanlike, tender, in a sense not reproachful.. | 4: [Verb] To make womanish; to unman; to weaken; as to effeminate children.. | 5: [Verb] To grow womanish or weak; to melt into weakness. In a slothful peace courage will effeminate.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| MultiLingual Slang | Italian (checca), English (nellie). (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (of a man or boy) Having behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a woman or girl; feminine. (references) | 2: [Verb] (archaic) To make womanly; to unman. 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 134: the studie of sciences doth more weaken and effeminate mens minds, than corroborate and adapt them to warre. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: effeminate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Apollonius the Effeminate | Apollonius, surnamed ὁ μαλακος ("the Effeminate"), a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria, who flourished about 120 B.C. After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric, among his pupils being Mark Antony. (references) | ||
| Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual | Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual was a skit done by Dana Carvey in the late 1980's on Saturday Night Live where he played a straight man with outrageously homosexual mannerisms and a lisp. Everyone thought he was gay, including his wife and children. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: effeminate
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Effeminate gay man | MultiLingual Slang | Italian (regina), English (queer, queen). (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: effeminate | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior | 4 | Apollonius the Effeminate | 3 | |
| Apollonius the Effeminate | 3 | Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior | 4 | |
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