emasculate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
2. (specifically, transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
3. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
4. (transitive) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.

Adj

Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.

Opposite of

empower, invigorate, masculate, strengthen

Synonyms

castrate

geld

weaken

effeminate

demasculinise

cissy

unsex

sissified

sissy

demasculinize

enervate

sissyish

sterilize

epicene

desex

devitalize

unman

render effeminate

render delicate

neuter

unbrace

unmanly

wash out

weak

womanize

worsen

evirate

devitalise

unmanful

unmanlike

hysterectomize

demasculinize

alter

demasculinise

blunt

caponize

cut out

damp

dampen

debilitate

de-escalate

deflate

delicate

depress

dull

emasculated

enfeeble

impair

shake

🫨

soft

Translations

émasculer

castrare

evirare

entmannen

castrar

châtrer

emascular

schwächen

emascular

debilitar

ευνουχίζω

castrare

émasculé

خصى

entkräften

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈmask.jʊl.lət/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).