Elegant vs. Feminine

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

Example: ‘an elegant solution’;

Fine; doing well.

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

Example: ‘A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.’;

Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style;

Example: ‘elegant handwriting’; ‘an elegant dark suit’; ‘she was elegant to her fingertips’; ‘small churches with elegant white spires’; ‘an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid’;

suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion

refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;

Example: ‘a courtly gentleman’;

Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.

Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.

Belonging to females; typically used by females.

Example: ‘Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.’;

Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.

(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

That which is feminine.

A woman.

(grammar) The feminine gender.

(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

Example: ‘Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.’;

Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. (Pros.) See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

Example: ‘Her heavenly formAngelic, but more soft and feminine.’; ‘Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.’;

a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

associated with women and not with men;

Example: ‘feminine intuition’;

of grammatical gender;

Example: ‘`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun’;

befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman;

Example: ‘womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion’;

(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;

Example: ‘a feminine ending’;