weiblicher

Weiblicher is a form of the German adjective weiblich, meaning female or feminine. It functions both as the inflected attributive form of the adjective and as the comparative degree of the same word.

As an attributive adjective, weiblicher describes a masculine singular noun in the nominative or accusative case when used with an indefinite article or without a definite determiner. For example, ein weiblicher Mann means “a female man,” i.e., a man who is female; der weibliche Mann uses the definite article with the standard -e ending. The exact ending of the attributive form follows German adjective declension rules and changes with the gender, article, and case of the noun it modifies.

Weiblicher can also appear in the comparative degree, meaning “more feminine.” In this sense it describes a higher degree of feminine characteristics relative to something else. For example, etymologically and grammatically it remains an inflected form of weiblich, used in phrases such as “weiblicher als …” (more feminine than …).

Etymology traces weiblich to the noun Weib (woman) with the suffix -lich, forming an adjective that denotes characteristic of or relating to women. The modern form weiblich is standard in general usage, while weiblicher is the inflected form used in specific syntactic contexts, including comparisons and gendered descriptions.

In contemporary usage, the word appears in contexts ranging from biology (weiblich vs. männlich) to gender studies and everyday description of feminine attributes. Related terms include the base adjective weiblich and gender-related phrases such as weibliche Fortpflanzungsorgane or weiblicher Stil.