effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
(adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
(verb) remove the testicles of a male animal
emasculate, castrate
(verb) deprive of strength or vigor; “The Senate emasculated the law”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
emasculate (comparative more emasculate, superlative most emasculate)
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.
emasculate (third-person singular simple present emasculates, present participle emasculating, simple past and past participle emasculated)
(transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. [from early 17th c.]
Synonym: unman
(transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [from early 17th c.]
Synonyms: unman, debilitate, demasculate, enervate, enfeeble
Antonyms: empower, invigorate, masculate (obsolete), strengthen
(transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
• emaculates
Source: Wiktionary
E*mas"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emasculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emasculating.] Etym: [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine.]
1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
E*mas"cu*late, a.
Definition: Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." Hammond.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 October 2024
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish; “a grievous loss”; “a grievous cry”; “her sigh was heartbreaking”; “the heartrending words of Rabin’s granddaughter”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
