adj. & n.
--adj.
1. of or characteristic of women.
2 having qualities associated with women.
3 womanly, effeminate.
4 Gram. of or denoting the gender proper to women's names.
--n. Gram. a feminine gender or word.
Derivatives:
femininely adv. feminineness n. femininity n.
Etymology: ME f. OF feminin -ine or L femininus f. femina woman