effeminate
adjective
disapprovinguk/ɪˈfem.ɪ.nət/us/əˈfem.ə.nət/An effeminate manbehavesorlookssimilarto a woman:
（男人）女人气的，女性化的，没有男子汉气概的He's got a very effeminatemanner/voice.他举止／说话很女人气。
Compare
epiceneformal
| 单词 | effeminate |
| 释义 | effeminate adjective disapprovinguk/ɪˈfem.ɪ.nət/us/əˈfem.ə.nət/An effeminate manbehavesorlookssimilarto a woman: （男人）女人气的，女性化的，没有男子汉气概的He's got a very effeminatemanner/voice.他举止／说话很女人气。 Compare epiceneformal Examplesofeffeminateeffeminate As a result, he is transformed into a passive almosteffeminatebeing who remains neutral and who extricates himself from social and political life. From theCambridge English Corpus What combination of these and in what degree constitutes an "effeminateman"? From theCambridge English Corpus Until about mid-century, picturing a man recumbent was a way to make himeffeminate, a juxtaposition strikingly revealed in a political cartoon from roughly 1838. From theCambridge English Corpus Pre-occupation with dress in men is often condemned aseffeminate, associating men with negatively-perceived female qualities of vanity and narcissism. From theCambridge English Corpus Pro-luxury writers refuted the suggestion that high levels of consumption rendered a nation weak andeffeminate. From theCambridge English Corpus In the nineteenth century these values also explicitly involved gender because ornamentation was considered sensual oreffeminate, and the lack of ornamentation rational or masculine. From theCambridge English Corpus Daphnis's association with ornament and metric dissonance is linked directly to his depiction as a sensitive,effeminatecharacter. From theCambridge English Corpus Braddon implicitly argues that the space of fascination is a female one and that women, rather thaneffeminatemen, will be successful within it. From theCambridge English Corpus Such contrasts between active, manly virtue and its presumed opposites, theeffeminatevices of cowardice, idleness, luxury, and dependency, fill the writings of the revolutionary and early national eras. From theCambridge English Corpus A taste for consumer goods, especially luxuries, made a nation weak, self-indulgent andeffeminate, undermining the fighting qualities of its army and the selfdenying virtues necessary for good citizenship. From theCambridge English Corpus Here the sofa could be a platform for conversation between men and women, but it could also raise fears ofeffeminateinfluence and luxury, corroders of independent male citizens. From theCambridge English Corpus I regard it neither aseffeminatenor yet as a kind of criminal act to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are made of much sterner stuff, and the consumption of beer is a habit which we regard aseffeminate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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