meaning of effeminate
1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc. ; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
3. To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
4. To grow womanish or weak.
5. characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an effeminate
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effeminate | effeminated | effeminately | effeminateness |
