Synonyms for female
ˈfi meɪlfe·male

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

2. femaleadjective

   Belonging or referring to the sex which is generally characterized as the one associated with the larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made), which in humans and many other species is the sex which produces eggs.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

3. femaleadjective

   Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

4. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   socket

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1. female

   We apply female to the sex, feminine to the qualities, especially the finer physical or mental qualities that distinguish the female sex in the human family, or to the objects appropriate for or especially employed by them. A female voice is the voice of a woman; a feminine voice may belong to a man. Womanish denotes the undesirable, womanly the admirable or lovely qualities of woman. Womanly tears would suggest respect and sympathy, womanish tears a touch of contempt. The word effeminate is always used reproachfully, and only of men as possessing womanly traits such as are inconsistent with true manliness.

   See synonyms for MASCULINE.

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, feminine, womanish, womanly

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1. femalenoun

   an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

   Synonyms:
   female person

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, priapic, staminate, epicene, hermaphroditic, androgynous, gynandromorphic, unisex, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, pseudohermaphroditic, gynandromorphous, hermaphrodite, masculine, young-begetting(a), intersexual, bisexual, antheral

2. female, female personadjective

   a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

   Synonyms:
   female person

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, hermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, hermaphrodite, androgynous, antheral, epicene, unisex, gynandromorphic, staminate, young-begetting(a), pseudohermaphroditic, intersexual, masculine, gynandromorphous, bisexual

3. femaleadjective

   being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

   "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"

   Synonyms:
   distaff

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphroditic, hermaphroditic, phallic, pseudohermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), masculine, gynandromorphous, staminate, unisex, bisexual, gynandromorphic, epicene, androgynous, priapic, antheral, hermaphrodite, intersexual

4. female, distaffadjective

   characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

   "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

   Synonyms:
   distaff

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, unisex, bisexual, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, masculine, gynandromorphous, antheral, epicene, staminate, androgynous, hermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), intersexual, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic

5. femaleadjective

   for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

   "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"

   Synonyms:
   distaff

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphrodite, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, androgynous, intersexual, gynandromorphous, epicene, staminate, masculine, bisexual, phallic, young-begetting(a), antheral, unisex

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1. • Animal
   • Biology

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   feminine, pistillate (Bot.)

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1. List of paraphrases for "female":

   women, females, woman, feminine, mutilation, wife, féminin, girls, girl, femmes, female-dominated

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1. List of known nicknames for "Female":

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1. Famke Janssen:

   We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

2. Steve Gray:

   Emma Weyant, Reka Gyorgy and all of the collegiate swimmers that had to compete against Lia Thomas— these girls have dedicated hours to learning and mastering their sport, and now they’re being robbed of victories and robbed of rightful victories, it’s just shameful that politicians, the NCAA and others are more concerned with being politically correct than doing what’s right for our dedicated, biologically female athletes.

3. Paige Fiedler:

   That’s wonderful, i always thought that having a female justice on the Iowa Supreme Court would have helped the judges understand what it’s like to be a woman in the work place.

4. Hunter Handsfield:

   Because of the nature of the female genitalia, if you get new herpes, there's likely multiple painful blisters, for men, typically a few blisters.

5. Stanford University historian Adrienne Mayor:

   Excavations of Eurasian graves have uncovered battle-scarred female skeletons dressed in tunics and trousers, and buried with quivers full of arrows, battle-axes, spears, and horse gear, so we know that genuine warrior women really existed at the time and places reported by the ancient Greeks and other cultures.