UNMANLY vs EPICENE: NOUN
- N/A
- One that is epicene.
- An epicene word.
- A hermaphrodite person or other creature
- An effeminate person
- An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.
- An epicene object
- One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
UNMANLY vs EPICENE: ADJECTIVE
- Not possessing qualities befitting a man
- Not becoming of a man.
- Not acceptable of a man.
- Cowardly, base.
- Of or pertaining to something not human.
- Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
- Uncharacteristic of, unbecoming to, or degrading to a man, especially in not conforming to stereotypical masculine traits such as stoicism and independence.
- Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
- Having characteristics of both sexes.
- Having unsuitable feminine qualities
- Having an ambiguous sexual identity
- Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to the other sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate.
- Having only one form for both the male and the female.
- Lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine
- Effeminate (male with unusually strong female characteristics)
- Androgynous, hermaphrodite (having both male and female characteristics)
- Asexual (having neither male nor female characteristics)
- Having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents
- Having no characteristics of either sex.
UNMANLY vs EPICENE: ADVERB
- In a manner that is unmanly.
- Without qualities thought to befit a man
- N/A
UNMANLY vs EPICENE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Not manly.
- Contemptibly fearful
- Belonging to or including both sexes: especially, in grammar, applied to nouns having only one form of gender to indicate animals of both sexes: thus, the Greek ο%35ϊς and Latin ovis, a sheep, are feminine words, whether applied to males or to females.
- Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
- Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
UNMANLY vs EPICENE: RELATED WORDS
- Unmanful, Sissyish, Poor spirited, Cissy, Emasculate, Fearful, Pusillanimous, Timid, Epicene, Coward, Cowardly, Sissified, Womanish, Effeminate, Sissy
- Saturnine, Dandyish, Feeble, Unisex, Unmanlike, Unmanful, Sissyish, Cissy, Bisexual, Sissy, Emasculate, Unmanly, Sissified, Androgynous, Effeminate
UNMANLY vs EPICENE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Unmanful, Sissyish, Poor spirited, Cissy, Emasculate, Fearful, Pusillanimous, Timid, Epicene, Coward, Cowardly, Sissified, Womanish, Effeminate, Sissy
- Saturnine, Dandyish, Feeble, Unisex, Unmanlike, Unmanful, Sissyish, Cissy, Bisexual, Sissy, Emasculate, Unmanly, Sissified, Androgynous, Effeminate
UNMANLY vs EPICENE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- It was certainly as coarse, ignorant and unmanly a screed as I ever read, but he went to St.
- It gives insight into how the victims were perceived by the perpetrators: as weak, unmanly, dirty and smelly.
- This is in thee a nature but infected; A poor unmanly melancholy, sprung From change of fortune.
- It must be the case that these damaged men were weak, weak I say, unmanly and unworthy!
- The custom was intended to portray the prisoner as weak and unmanly.
- Which means not a single sentimental, fluffy, unmanly thought will pass our lips.
- But this would be to encourage idleness and unmanly despair.
- Haemon for unmanly shortcoming in agreeing with a lady.
- But there is nothing so unmanly as fatalism.
- Atticus thought fighting was destructive, immature and unmanly.
- Bench is shocked and outraged to find the symbol of his youth usurped by a group of epicene vagabonds.