ˈfɛmɪnɪn ˈfɛmɪnɪn ˈwʊmənli associated with women and not with men feminine intuition befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion female (of grammatical gender) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable a feminine ending a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female