1. effeminate - Noun
2. effeminate - Adjective
3. effeminate - Verb
4. effeminate - Adjective Satellite
Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
To grow womanish or weak.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEffeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over. Camille Paglia
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. Edgar Quinet
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. Karl Philipp Moritz
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. Thomas Willis
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. Little Richard
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. Dan Savage