Crossword-Solution: FEMININE 8 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Feminine a. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic
of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Feminine a. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate
to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate,
confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving,
effeminate.
Feminine n. A woman.
Feminine n. Any one of those words which are the appellations of
females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words;
as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

We have 36 clues for the answer “FEMININE”

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ending on an unaccented beat or syllable 1 answer
The ___ Mystique 1 answer
Sex of the Erinyes. 1 answer
Pertaining to women 1 answer
Like the German "die" and French "la" 1 answer
Friedan's "The ___ Mystique" 1 answer
Like some out-of-favor suffixes 1 answer
Like some charms 1 answer
Friedan's mystique? 1 answer
Like some Spanish nouns 1 answer
Like "executrix," e.g. 1 answer
Kind of mystique 1 answer
Like "Roma," to Romans 1 answer
girlish 4 answers
womanish 11 answers
Petticoat 11 answers
nurturing 13 answers
SOFT person 15 answers
pansy 16 answers
Gender 17 answers
like a woman 18 answers
womanlike 18 answers
womanly 19 answers
unmanly 19 answers
ladylike 21 answers
sissy 22 answers
___-fé 23 answers
effeminate 31 answers
Female 33 answers
woman 36 answers
Generic 42 answers
doormat 43 answers
coward 47 answers
weakling 49 answers
Chicken 72 answers
Soft 76 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FEMININE (5)

With these came they, who from the bordring flood Of old _Euphrates_ to the Brook that parts _Egypt_ from _Syrian_ ground, had general Names Of _Baalim_ and _Ashtaroth_, those male, These Feminine.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine direction, her expressions seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part—vistas of probable triumphs—the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The magnificent coach, drawn by four of the finest thoroughbreds in England, had driven off along the London road, with Sir Percy Blakeney on the box, holding the reins in his slender feminine hands, and beside him Lady Blakeney wrapped in costly furs.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Soft, mildly, and cheerfully contemplative, with full, red lips, just on the verge of a smile, which the eyes seemed to herald by a gentle kindling-up of their orbs! Feminine traits, moulded inseparably with those of the other sex! The miniature, likewise, had this last peculiarity; so that you inevitably thought of the original as resembling his mother, and she a lovely and lovable woman, with perhaps some beautiful infirmity of character, that made it all the pleasanter to know and easier to love her.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with FEMININE (3)

With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty Holding the leash of blood So that it might leap out and trace your outline Where you lie down in my Ode As in a land of forests or in surf In aromatic loam, or in sea music Beautiful nude Equally beautiful your feet Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound Your ears, small shells Of the splendid American sea Your breasts of level plentitude Fulfilled by living light Your flying eyelids of wheat Revealing or enclosing …
Pablo Neruda
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or …
Christine de Pizan The Book of the City of Ladies
... Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is, as I tell you, the home of the masters of reality, and from earth, which is the home of the slaves of reality. The earth is a nursery in which men and women play at being heroes and heroines, saints and sinners; but they are dragged down from their fool’s paradise by their bodies: hunger and cold and thirst, age and decay and disease, death above all, make them sl…
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1948–2017).