Masculine

What do we mean by masculine?

Of or relating to men or boys; male. adjective

Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to men, such as aggressiveness. adjective

Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to males or to things grammatically classified as male. adjective

Ending on an accented beat. adjective

The masculine gender. noun

A word or word form of the masculine gender. noun

A male person. noun

Male: opposed to female.

Having the distinguishing characteristics of the male sex among human beings, physical or mental; pertaining to a man or to men; of manlike quality: opposed to feminine: as, the masculine element of society; masculine spirit or courage.

As applied derogatively to women, unwomanly; bold; forward: as, her manners are coarse and masculine; she has a masculine air or stride.

Suitable for the male sex; adapted to or intended for the use of males: as, masculine garments.

In grammar, belonging to or having the characteristics of that one of the so-called genders into which the nouns, etc., of some languages are divided which includes as its prominent part the names of male beings; having inflections or forms belonging to such words: as, a masculine noun; a masculine termination. See gender.

In botany, relating to stamens: same as male, 2.

In grammar, the masculine gender; a word of this gender. noun

Of the male sex; not female. adjective

Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust. adjective

Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males. adjective

Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender. adjective

Pertaining to male humans, men: adjective

(grammar) The masculine gender.

(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.

That which is masculine.

(possibly obsolete) A man.

Words that are spelled similarly to masculine:
masculine, masculin, masculina, masculino, mescaline, baculine, masculate, masculinus, masculinize, pascaline, unmasculine, marceline, maschine, masculinise, masculist, musculin, masculines, maskulin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word masculine:
neuter, feminine, hypocorism, declension, nominative, nouns, vocative, accusative, genitive, counterpart, plural, dative, singular, adjectives, noun, surname, androgynous, inanimate, masculinity, pronoun, syllable, animate, cognate, inflected, adjective, femininity, diminutive, refer, gender, participle, possessive, suffix, suffixes, grammatical, definite, slavic, indefinite, notable, consonant, colloquial, traits, given, inhabited, name, germanic, verbs, homosexual, verb, variant, meaning, derived, unmarried, norse, vowel, japanese, lithuanian, qualities, prefix, ending, russia, gaelic, norms, spelled, rural, translates, derives, variants, feminist, arabic, forms, write, sanskrit, include, lesbian, origin, fictional, sexuality, spelling, hebrew, male, referring, pronounced, dual, names, nickname, rod, stems, shortened, turkish, form, locality, word, words, people, characteristics, latin, sex, depends, equivalent, russian.

Adjectives that are often used to describe masculine:
more, most, singular, generic, less, gendered, plural, nominative, deep, eternal, third, feminine, inner, least, inherently, strong, separate, internal, moon, very, corresponding, divine, archetypal, mature, peculiarly, accusative, dark, traditional, proper, latter, genitive, complementary, stereotypic, singularly, rough, weak, dominant, static, exaggeratedly, somewhat, 3rd, universal, intrinsically, female, greek, grammatical, sacred, called, dynamic, sun, ideal, normative, unmarked, person, culturally, coarse, clumsy, stronger, commonly, hegemonic, aggressive, unpolluted, abnormally, identifiably, inanimate, archetypally.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective masculine:
gender, identity, role, form, traits, voice, characteristics, behavior, power, qualities, world, nouns, pronoun, roles, character, principle, strength, mind, values, forms, protest, side, image, energy, authority, ideal, pronouns, identification, woman, culture, type, noun, nature, style, beauty, women, attributes, subject, identities, figure, desire, pride, appearance, virtues, terms, force, activities, body, sexuality, element, spirit, plural, attire, name, features, sex, superiority, dominance, feminine, self, bias, domination, interests, behaviour, names, ideals, face, scent, discourse, behaviors, principles, dress, virtue, aspect, understanding, quality, rhymes, intellect, privilege, vigor, vigour, subjectivity, presence, counterpart, ego.

Words that sound like masculine:
masculine, masculin, maskulin, mescalin, muskmelon, mescaline, macula, musculus, maslen, mass killing, mcquillan, muscular, muscule, mcmullen, masculate, musculature, mcmullin, mesclun, muskellunge, mcmullan, mccullen, mechelen, muculent, musculation, tusculum, mcmillan, mcclellan, macmillan, mclellan, mcmillian, mcmillen, maclellan, massillon, mckellen, moschella, mcmillon, muscle in, maclin, magdalen, macular, mcallen, misalign, mckeown, mcewen, magallon, maskell, osculum, mccullum, masculine rhyme, maculation, messaline, mccallen, macewen, immasculation, mascon, mascal.