Adjective:

स्रैण,

effeminate's Usage Examples:

122) point the contrast between their simple life and the effeminate nations of the civilized countries of Asia.

He was naturally compassionate towards objects in distress even to an effeminate measure; though God had made him a heart wherein was left little room for fear,.

One of the figures, a barbarian captive, effeminate like those which appear on Roman triumphal arches, is practically intact.

When the Romans became masters of the world, many of their upper classes, both before the close of the republic and under the empire, from a love of Greek manners and literature or from indolent and effeminate habits, resorted to Neapolis, either for the education and the cultivation of gymnastic exercises or for the enjoyment of music and of a soft and luxurious climate.

About a year before his death, he is described by Sanson,2 a missionary from the French king Louis XIV., as tall, strong and active, a fine princea little too effeminate for a monarch, with a Roman nose very well proportioned to other parts, very large blue eyes, and a midling mouth, a beard painted black, shavd round, and well turnd, even to his ears.

Once again he was doing something that might be considered effeminate in another man, and yet he looked totally masculine.

Surrounded by his mignons, he scandalized the people by his effeminate manners.

The Parthian magnates, on the other hand, with the army, would have little to do with Greek culture and Greek modes of life, which they contemptuously regarded as effeminate and unmanly.

The silken textures which at first found their way to Rome were necessarily of enormous cost, and their use by men was deemed a piece of effeminate luxury.

That admiration for an empire of more than two hundred millions of men, where not one had the right to call himself free; that effeminate philosophy which has more praise for luxury and pleasures than for all the virtues; that style always elegant and never energetic, reveal at the most the elector of Hanover's slave."

Synonyms:

sissified, sissyish, unmanlike, unmanful, sissy, unmanly, emasculate, cissy, epicene,

Antonyms:

brave, strengthen, female, male, manly,