| Noun | 1. | feminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as femalegender, grammatical gender - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | |
| Adj. | 1. | feminine - associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"female - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries" masculine - associated with men and not with women | |
| 2. | feminine - of grammatical genderfeminine - associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition" neuter - of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun" | |
| 3. | feminine - befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" | |
| 4. | feminine - (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | |