Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun masculine
1 sense of masculine
Sense 1
masculine -- (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male)
=> gender, grammatical 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)
Antonyms of adj masculine
3 senses of masculine
Sense 1
masculine (vs. feminine) (vs. neuter) -- (of grammatical gender)
feminine (vs. neuter) (vs. masculine) -- (of grammatical gender)
neuter (vs. masculine) (vs. feminine) -- (of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun")
Sense 2
masculine (vs. feminine) -- (associated with men and not with women)
feminine (vs. masculine) -- (associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition")
=> fair (prenominal) -- (attractively feminine; "the fair sex")
=> female, distaff -- (characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage")
=> maidenlike, maidenly -- (befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush")
=> powder-puff -- (used of competitive activities in which only women take part; "powder-puff baseball"; "a powder-puff football game")
Sense 3
masculine -- ((music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'")
INDIRECT (VIA stressed) -> unstressed -- (not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are unstressed")
Similarity of adj masculine
3 senses of masculine
Sense 1
masculine (vs. feminine) (vs. neuter) -- (of grammatical gender)
Also See-> masculine#2
Sense 2
masculine (vs. feminine) -- (associated with men and not with women)
=> butch, macho -- (used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner)
=> male, manful, manlike, manly, virile -- (characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports")
=> mannish -- (characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman; "true mannish arrogance")
Also See-> male#1; manly#1, manful#1, manlike#1; masculine#1
Sense 3
masculine -- ((music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'")
=> stressed (vs. unstressed), accented -- (bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'")