masculine

Speech parts

1. masculine - Noun

2. masculine - Adjective

3. masculine - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of the male sex; not female.

Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.

Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.

Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hardy colter butch manly jock strong ape stoic brawny mannish male powerful gender dominant robust
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Antonyms

feminine meek sissy beneficent female weak
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Hypernyms

gender grammatical gender

Phrases with the word

exaggerated masculine pride masculine lesbian masculine behaviour masculine hair masculine tomboy in the masculine line

Anagrams

calumnies semuncial

Examples

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. George Boole

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. Judith Butler

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. Betty Friedan

The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions. Helen Rowland

Words are feminine, deeds masculine. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

mascule masculin masculinazi masculine behaviour masculine caesura masculine hair