Usually means: In a manner stereotypically associated with women.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word effeminately:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. effeminately: Merriam-Webster
  2. effeminately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effeminately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. effeminately: Vocabulary.com
  5. effeminately: Wordnik
  6. effeminately: Wiktionary
  7. Effeminately, effeminately: Dictionary.com
  8. Effeminately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. effeminately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Effeminately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. effeminately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. effeminately: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Effeminately: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. effeminately: Medical dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In an effeminate manner.

Similar:
femininely, effetely, unfemininely, femalely, girlishly, effusively, womanfully, feministically, effably, demurely, more...

Opposite:
masculinely, manly, ruggedly

Types:
camp, flamboyant, effete, metrosexual, metropolitan, metrosexually, more...

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Similar:
femininely, effetely, unfemininely, femalely, girlishly, effusively, womanfully, feministically, effably, demurely, more...

Opposite:
masculinely, manly, ruggedly

Types:
camp, flamboyant, effete, metrosexual, metropolitan, metrosexually, more...



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