Crossword-Solution: FEMININE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 …
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 …
... 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…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1948–2017).