Female and Male

Female

Female adjective - Of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women.
Usage example: female standards of housekeeping imposed by the women at the vacation cottage weren't especially popular with the men

Male is an antonym for female in topics: woman, qualities of a woman.

Male

Male adjective - Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation.
Usage example: a male holly tree

Female is an antonym for male in topics: masculine, man.

How words are described

human human female human male
old old female old male
rare rare female rare male
average average female average male
Other adjectives: lead, straight, single, black, main, young, attractive, beautiful, leading, dominant, hot, sole, lone, last, older, humanoid, teenage, bisexual, heterosexual, playable.

Both words in one sentence

  • Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action She gives them three sets of genitalia: a horse-sized male and female set on the horse half, and a human-sized male or female set "in front".
  • Video Game / Medabots There are both male and female Tinpets that can wear only male or female Medaparts respectively.
  • Manga / RG Veda To a certain extent he's actually treated as both male and female in that he's shown up in group illustrations that otherwise exclusively only have either male or female characters.
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Male and Female. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/female/male
Female & Male. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/female/male>.
Male or Female. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/female/male.
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