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💔 To weaken ✂️ To castrate 🙅 Unmanly
emasculate

emasculate

1 8.6
Not showing usual male strength or confidence
  • adjective
  • /ɪˈmæskjʊˌleɪt/
  • Offensive
: afeminado
  • Some people believe that showing emotion is an emasculate trait in men.

These are thin skinned, emasculated, broken, dumb men that have games the system their whole lives.

Examples

  • In discussions about masculinity, terms that suggest weakness can be seen as emasculate.

  • He felt that his sensitivity made him emasculate in a society that values toughness.

  • The the patriarchy, the, you know, the emasculating culture, whatever you like, right?

Synonyms

effeminate
vsemasculate
  • Offensive
15 7.5

A male who looks or acts like a woman

focuses on lacking masculine strength rather than feminine appearance
emasculated
vsemasculate
  • Offensive
9 7.5

Feeling less strong or less like a man

describes having those unmanly qualities rather than a caused feeling
less of a man
vsemasculate
  • Offensive
6 8.9

Feeling weaker or less manly than other men

refers to the state of having unmanly qualities rather than just feeling inferior
effete
vsemasculate
  • Offensive
4 9.9

Too delicate and refined in style, showing little physical strength

means lacking traditional masculine strength rather than refined weakness

Antonyms

masculine
87 3.7

Having qualities people often connect with men, for example strength and toughness

How Masculine

macho
  • Informal
117 6.7
manly
95 3.0
emasculate
  • Offensive
1 8.6
effeminate
  • Offensive
15 7.5

Surface Forms

emasculate positive

Etymology

Emasculate comes from Latin ex- 'out' and masculus 'male', the same root as masculine. So when used as an adjective, emasculate describes a person or action that seems to lack traditional 'male' strength or qualities.