FEMININE Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

feminine

adjective

ˈfe-mə-nən

as in female

of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women a designer adding feminine touches to the collection

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Recent Examples of feminine Victorian mores determined that brown men were too feminine and brown women too masculine, and the group as a whole was oversexed and in need of population control. —

Supriya Ganesh, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026 She was regarded as the feminine equivalent of a Rottweiler, with a bite if she was questioned. —

Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026 Always feminine pads, launched in 1983. —

Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 This fun, feminine top from Avenue is one of my favorite cruise staples. —

Robin Raven, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for feminine

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feminine

female

Adjective

The global micro-drama surge is also the story of a predominantly female audience, hungry for romance and fantasy, sidestepping legacy gatekeepers.

— Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.

— Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026