Unmanly Synonyms and Antonyms

ŭn-mănlē
Having qualities more appropriate to women than to men
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. effeminate
  2. womanish
  3. epicene
  4. cowardly
  5. degrading
  6. feminine
  7. dishonorable
  8. unmanful
  9. sissified
  10. effeminate cockney
  11. gutless
  12. sissyish
  13. ignoble
  14. mean
  15. sissy
  16. unmasculine
  17. unmanlike
Antonyms:
  1. manly
Lacking courage
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weak
Without qualities thought to befit a man
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. unmanfully
Antonyms:
  1. manfully

Words Related to Unmanly

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Unmanly Sentence Examples

  • On the day of his capture Monmouth wrote to James in terms of the most unmanly contrition, ascribing his wrong-doings to the action of others, and imploring an interview.

  • Equally extensive, but less important in the political sphere, were the Papal States and Veneti, the former torpid under the obscurantist rule of pope and cardinals, the latter enervated by luxury and the policy of unmanly complaisance long pursued by doge and council.

  • The Parthian magnates, on the other hand, with the army, would have little to do with Greek culture and Greek modes of life, which they contemptuously regarded as effeminate and unmanly.

  • Complaining is so unmanly, which is why I do it so well!

  • At most other times many think it's somehow unmanly to express emotion, somehow a sign of weakness!

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