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Synonyms for WOMANLY
ˈwʊm ən liwom·an·ly
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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Synonyms:
effeminate, female, feminine, womanish
Princeton's WordNet
Dictionary of English Synonymes
womanlyadjective
Synonyms:
feminine (in a good sense), becoming a woman
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How to use WOMANLY in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
The most womanly woman.
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- نسويArabic
- ženskýCzech
- weiblich, fraulichGerman
- γυναικείοςGreek
- virinaEsperanto
- زنانهPersian
- fémininFrench
- banúilIrish
- banailScottish Gaelic
- benoilManx
- nőiesHungarian
- 女らしいJapanese
- mulier veroLatin
- sievišķīgs, sieviešu, sievišķsLatvian
- kobiecyPolish
- ښځينهPashto, Pushto
- femininoPortuguese
- feminin, femeiescRomanian
- женственный, женский, женоподобныйRussian
- kvinnligSwedish
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