[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

effeminate \effem"inate\, a. l. effeminatus, p. p. of
   effeminare to make a woman of; ex out + femina a woman. see
   feminine, a.
   1. having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy,
      luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly
      degree; womanish; weak.
      1913 webster

            the king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage,
            became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.
                                                  --bacon.
      1913 webster

            an effeminate and unmanly foppery.    --bp. hurd.
      1913 webster

   2. womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
      1913 webster

            gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   note: effeminate and womanish are generally used in a
         reproachful sense; feminine and womanly, applied to
         women, are epithets of propriety or commendation.
         1913 webster
see also:
feminine 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

effeminate \effem"inate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. effeminated;
   p. pr.  vb. n. effeminating.
   to make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
   1913 webster

         it will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds.
                                                  --locke.
   1913 webster
see also:
effeminated effeminating 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

effeminate \effem"inate\, v. i.
   to grow womanish or weak.
   1913 webster

         in a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and
         manners corrupt.                         --pope.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

effeminate
     adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities syn: emasculate, epicene,
             cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
     2: characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an
        effeminate civilization" syn: weak
see also:
emasculate epicene cissy sissified sissyish sissy 
weak 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

60 moby thesaurus words for "effeminate":
   ac-dc, amphierotic, autoerotic, bent, bisexed, bisexual, breakable,
   brittle, butch, campy, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly,
   dainty, delicate, delicately weak, deviant, flimsy, fragile, frail,
   frangible, gay, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, homoerotic,
   homosexual, jerry, jerry-built, lesbian, light, lightweight,
   mannish, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery,
   pasteboardy, perverted, prissy, puny, queer, sapphic, shattery,
   sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky,
   transvestite, tribadistic, unmanly, unsubstantial, weak, wispy,
   womanish, womanly

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Encyclopedia: Effeminate
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Effeminate - (Sexuality): Definition
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Urban Dictionary: effeminate
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