Word Meanings - EFFEMINATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes. 2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. "Effeminately vanquished." Milton.

Related words: (words related to EFFEMINATELY)

• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• EFFEMINATE
  1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon.
• PROUDISH
  Somewhat proud. Ash.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• SOFTLY
  In a soft manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• WEAKLY
  In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• VANQUISHABLE
  That may be vanquished.
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• DELICATELY
  In a delicate manner.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• POWER
  The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number. (more info) v., fr. LL. potere, for L. posse, potesse, to be able, to have power. 1. Ability to act,
• WOMANIZE
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERPROUD
  Exceedingly or unduly proud. "Overproud of his victory." Milton.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• TOP-PROUD
  Proud to the highest degree. "This top-proud fellow." Shak.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers