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- gender
- a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- masculine
collapse - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
- associated with men and not with women
- of grammatical gender
- (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'" related words >
- andric,
- animate,
- bull,
- common gender,
- feminine,
- gender,
- gentleman,
- gentlemanlike,
- gentlemanly,
- he,
- him,
- his,
- hombre,
- homme,
- inanimate,
- male,
- male being,
- male person,
- man,
- manful,
- manlike,
- manly,
- mannish,
- neuter,
- uneffeminate
- feminine
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- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
- associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
- of grammatical gender
- (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending" related words >
- affected,
- amenable,
- animate,
- common gender,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- distaff,
- docile,
- effeminate,
- effete,
- female,
- gender,
- gentle,
- gentlewomanlike,
- girlish,
- gynecic,
- gynecoid,
- gynic,
- inanimate,
- kittenish,
- ladylike,
- little-girlish,
- maidenly,
- masculine,
- matronal,
- matronlike,
- matronly,
- muliebral,
- neuter,
- petticoat,
- soft,
- submissive,
- tender,
- unmanly,
- womanish,
- womanlike,
- womanly
- neuter
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- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs related words >
- Laodicean,
- alter,
- animate,
- anythingarian,
- apathetic,
- asexual,
- capon,
- castrate,
- castrated,
- centrist,
- change,
- cold,
- common gender,
- contemplative,
- cool,
- cut,
- desex,
- desexualize,
- do-nothing,
- doctor,
- dormant,
- emasculate,
- emasculated,
- epicene,
- eunuchize,
- eunuchized,
- even,
- feminine,
- fence-sitter,
- fervorless,
- fifty-fifty,
- fix,
- frigid,
- frustrated,
- geld,
- gender,
- half-and-half,
- halfhearted,
- idle,
- immobile,
- impartial,
- impotent,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- independent,
- indifferent,
- inert,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- lukewarm,
- masculine,
- meditative,
- midway,
- moderate,
- motionless,
- mugwump,
- mutilate,
- neutral,
- nonaligned,
- noncommitted,
- nonpartisan,
- nothingarian,
- on the fence,
- paralytic,
- paralyzed,
- passive,
- perfunctory,
- procrastinating,
- quiescent,
- quietist,
- quietistic,
- sexless,
- spay,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standpat,
- static,
- stationary,
- tepid,
- third force,
- third world,
- third-force,
- third-world,
- uncommitted,
- uninvolved,
- unsex,
- unsexed,
- unsexual,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- zealless
- femininity
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- the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women related words >
- inanimate
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- not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"
- belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" related words >
- abiotic,
- animate,
- apathetic,
- asleep,
- asleep in Jesus,
- at rest,
- azoic,
- benumbed,
- bereft of life,
- blase,
- bored,
- breathless,
- called home,
- carrion,
- cold,
- common gender,
- croaked,
- dead,
- dead and gone,
- death-struck,
- debilitated,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- demised,
- departed,
- departed this life,
- destitute of life,
- done for,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dull,
- dumb,
- enervated,
- exanimate,
- extinct,
- fallen,
- feminine,
- finished,
- food for worms,
- gender,
- gone,
- gone to glory,
- gone west,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- immobile,
- inactive,
- inanimated,
- inert,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insentient,
- jaded,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languorous,
- late,
- late lamented,
- launched into eternity,
- leaden,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- listless,
- lumpish,
- martyred,
- masculine,
- moribund,
- motionless,
- mute,
- neuter,
- no more,
- nonconscious,
- nonliving,
- numb,
- passed on,
- phlegmatic,
- pooped,
- pushing up daisies,
- released,
- reposing,
- resting easy,
- sainted,
- sated,
- senseless,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- smitten with death,
- somnolent,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- still,
- stillborn,
- stultified,
- supine,
- taken away,
- taken off,
- torpid,
- unanimated,
- unconscious,
- unfeeling,
- unmoving,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wan,
- weary,
- with the Lord,
- with the saints,
- without life,
- without vital functions,
- world-weary
- animate
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- endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
- belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
- give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" related words >
- aboveground,
- activate,
- activated,
- active,
- actuate,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- among the living,
- animated,
- arouse,
- biological,
- biotic,
- boost,
- brace,
- brace up,
- breathe life into,
- breathing,
- brighten,
- bring into being,
- bring into existence,
- bring to life,
- brisk,
- brisken,
- buck up,
- buoy up,
- call into being,
- call into existence,
- cant,
- capable of life,
- cheer,
- chirk up,
- common gender,
- compel,
- conceive,
- conscious,
- drive,
- drive on,
- dynamic,
- dynamize,
- electrify,
- embolden,
- embue,
- encourage,
- endow with life,
- endowed with life,
- energize,
- energized,
- enliven,
- enlivened,
- exalt,
- excite,
- exhilarate,
- existent,
- feminine,
- fillip,
- fire,
- fire up,
- force,
- fortify,
- forward,
- foster,
- fresh up,
- freshen,
- freshen up,
- galvanize,
- gay,
- gender,
- give a lift,
- give an impetus,
- give birth,
- give life to,
- give momentum,
- gladden,
- goad,
- hearten,
- imbue,
- impel,
- in the flesh,
- inanimate,
- incite,
- infect,
- inflame,
- inform,
- infuse,
- infuse life into,
- inject,
- inoculate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- inspirited,
- instinct with life,
- invigorate,
- jazz up,
- keen,
- kindle,
- live,
- lively,
- liven,
- living,
- long-lived,
- masculine,
- motivate,
- move,
- move to action,
- moving,
- nerve,
- neuter,
- organic,
- organized,
- pep up,
- perk up,
- physiological,
- pick up,
- pique,
- power,
- promote,
- propel,
- provoke,
- put in motion,
- quick,
- quicken,
- reanimate,
- recreate,
- refresh,
- refreshen,
- regale,
- reinforce,
- reinvigorate,
- rejoice,
- rejoice the heart,
- renew,
- resuscitate,
- revitalize,
- revive,
- revivify,
- rouse,
- set agoing,
- set going,
- set in motion,
- set up,
- sharpen,
- snap up,
- spark,
- spirit,
- spirit up,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- spur on,
- steel,
- stimulate,
- stir,
- strengthen,
- tenacious of life,
- thrust,
- very much alive,
- viable,
- vital,
- vitalize,
- vivacious,
- vivified,
- vivify,
- warm,
- whet,
- whip on,
- zip up,
- zoetic
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