Difference between Fair and Feminine

What is the difference between Fair and Feminine?

Fair as an adjective is beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. while Feminine as an adjective is of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.

Fair

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. Unblemished and innocent; clean and pure. Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also refers to blond hair. Just, equitable. Adequate, reasonable, or decent. Between the baselines.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective). A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex'; also as a collective singular, women. A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. An event for public entertainment and trade, a market. An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline and reduce air drag. To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface). To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members). To make fair.

Example sentence: It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Feminine

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Of or pertaining to woman.Having the qualities of a woman.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.Grammatical gender distinction in languages that have it such as Spanish and Hindi that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The female principle(Obsolete or Colloquial): A woman.Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

Example sentence: The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

We hope you now know whether to use Fair or Feminine in your sentence.

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