effeminateEnglishOxford American Thesauruseffeminate adjective as his manicured fingers played with the gold medallion around his neck, he looked very effeminate: effete, unmanly, womanish, foppish, affected, niminy-piminy, mincing, posturing, queeny, campy; offensive limp-wristed, pansyish. ▷antonyms manly.