sissified

sissified
Synonyms and related words:
afraid, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chicken, chickenhearted, cobwebby, coward, cowardly, cowed, crumbly, dainty, daunted, delicate, delicately weak, dismayed, effeminate, epicene, fainthearted, fearful, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, funking, funky, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, henhearted, intimidated, jerry, jerry-built, light, lightweight, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, papery, pasteboardy, pigeonhearted, prissy, puny, rabbity, shattery, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, unsubstantial, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, wispy, womanish, yellow

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  • sissified — ☆ sissified [sis′ə fīd΄ ] adj. Informal SISSY …   English World dictionary

  • sissified — [“sisifaid] mod. effeminate; sissy style. □ Don’t act so sissified. □ I’m not comfortable in a sissified place like that …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • sissified — sissy (also cissy) informal ► NOUN (pl. sissies) ▪ a person regarded as feeble or effeminate. ► ADJECTIVE (sissier, sissiest) ▪ feeble or effeminate. DERIVATIVES sissified adjective …   English terms dictionary

  • sissified — adjective Date: circa 1903 of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a sissy …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • sissified — /sis euh fuyd /, adj. sissy. [1900 05; SISSY + FY + ED2] * * * …   Universalium

  • sissified — adjective Made like a sissy. Effete …   Wiktionary

  • sissified — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Having qualities more appropriate to women than to men: effeminate, epicene, feminine, sissyish, unmanly, womanish. See GENDER …   English dictionary for students

  • sissified — adj. (Informal) effeminate, sissy, lacking stereotypically masculine qualities (derogatory) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • sissified — sis·si·fied …   English syllables

  • sissified — sis•si•fied [[t]ˈsɪs əˌfaɪd[/t]] adj. sissy • Etymology: 1900–05 …   From formal English to slang

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