Usually means: Displaying traits traditionally considered feminine.
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  1. effeminate: Merriam-Webster
  2. effeminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effeminate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effeminate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effeminate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Effeminate, effeminate: Wordnik
  7. effeminate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effeminate: Wiktionary
  9. effeminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. effeminate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. effeminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Effeminate, effeminate: Dictionary.com
  13. effeminate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. effeminate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Effeminate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Effeminate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. effeminate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. effeminate: Rhymezone
  19. Effeminate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. effeminate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. effeminate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. effeminate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. effeminate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. effeminate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. effeminate: Encyclopedia

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  2. effeminate: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (often derogatory, of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a female; unmasculine.
adjective:  (obsolete) Womanly; tender, affectionate, caring.
verb:  (transitive, archaic or nonstandard) To make womanly; to unman.
verb:  (intransitive) To become womanly.
noun:  An effeminate person.

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