antimacho

adjective

Definition of antimachonext
as in feminine

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  1. feminine
  2. womanly
  3. girlish
  4. effeminate
Adjective
  • Ramírez translated the dance into rigorous black silhouettes, tailoring, restraint and the tension between masculine and feminine.
    — Michelle Edgar, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Inspired by Parton’s iconic flashy feminine style, Musgraves wore a formfitting hot-pink sparkly dress with feather trimming, silver hoop earrings, and purple eye shadow.
    — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of feminine
Adjective
  • With its elegant, womanly heel curving into a narrow point and its sensible perforated top designed to resemble a man's oxford dress shoe, the oxford pump is the shoe of a woman who stands between two worlds.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Marant launched her label and had her first show in 1994, quickly becoming a byword for a hip, womanly brand of boho chic.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
Definition of womanly
Adjective
  • The books’ capacious geography felt like a girlish form of manifest destiny.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The label saw her girlish soprano and bubbly personality as perfect for the pop charts, but Parton longed to be a country star.
    — Deborah Wilker, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of girlish
Adjective
  • The next big issue for me was that Axl shimmied from side to side with an unusual snakelike move that struck me as effeminate and lame.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The term kothi applies to a broad category of people assigned male at birth who are effeminate to varying degrees and might engage in same-sex relationships, but do not live in separate communities.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
Definition of effeminate
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