Antonyms for womanly
ˈwʊm ən liwom·an·ly

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1. womanlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   male, masculine

2. womanlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   masculine, male

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1. womanly

   We apply female to the sex, feminine to the qualities, especially the finer physical or mental qualities that distinguish the female sex in the human family, or to the objects appropriate for or especially employed by them. A female voice is the voice of a woman; a feminine voice may belong to a man. Womanish denotes the undesirable, womanly the admirable or lovely qualities of woman. Womanly tears would suggest respect and sympathy, womanish tears a touch of contempt. The word effeminate is always used reproachfully, and only of men as possessing womanly traits such as are inconsistent with true manliness.

   See synonyms for MASCULINE.

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, female, feminine, womanish

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1. womanly, feminineadjective

   befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman

   "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"

   Antonyms:
   tomboyish, hoydenish, unfeminine, mannish, unwomanly

   Synonyms:
   feminine

How to use womanly in a sentence?

1. Alfred de Musset:

   The most womanly woman.

2. Queen Victoria:

   The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

3. Louisa May Alcott:

   Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

4. Mary Baker Eddy:

   Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

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