UNFEMININE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfeminine mean? 

• UNFEMININE (adjective)
  The adjective UNFEMININE has 1 sense:

1. not suitable for a woman

  Familiarity information: UNFEMININE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFEMININE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not suitable for a woman

Context example:

an unfeminine depth of voice

Similar:

unwomanly (not womanly)

 Context examples 

Your words are such as ought not to be used: violent, unfeminine, and untrue.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was impossible to help laughing at the funny conflict between Laurie's chivalrous reluctance to speak ill of womankind, and his very natural dislike of the unfeminine folly of which fashionable society showed him many samples.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The dry-goods stores were not down among the counting-houses, banks, and wholesale warerooms, where gentlemen most do congregate, but Jo found herself in that part of the city before she did a single errand, loitering along as if waiting for someone, examining engineering instruments in one window and samples of wool in another, with most unfeminine interest, tumbling over barrels, being half-smothered by descending bales, and hustled unceremoniously by busy men who looked as if they wondered 'how the deuce she got there'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)