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womanly
Characteristic of or fit for a woman; womanlike
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  1. Characteristic of or fit for a woman; womanlike
  2. Fully developed as a woman, as in having a curvaceous figure:
  3. Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female.
effeminate
Characterized by such qualities; weak; soft, decadent, etc.
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  1. Characterized by such qualities; weak; soft, decadent, etc.
  2. Having the qualities generally attributed to women, as weakness, timidity, delicacy, etc.; unmanly; not virile
  3. Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly:
female
In organisms that reproduce sexually, being the gamete that is larger and less motile than the other corresponding gamete (the male gamete) of the same species. The egg cells of higher animals and plants are female gametes.
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  1. In organisms that reproduce sexually, being the gamete that is larger and less motile than the other corresponding gamete (the male gamete) of the same species. The egg cells of higher animals and plants are female gametes.
  2. Bearing pistils but not stamens; pistillate:
  3. Having the genitalia or other structures typical of a female organism. Worker ants are female but sterile.
distaff
Female; specif., designating the maternal side of a family
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  1. Female; specif., designating the maternal side of a family
  2. Relating to or being the female line or maternal branch of a family.
  3. Of or relating to women and girls; female.
female
In organisms that reproduce sexually, being the gamete that is larger and less motile than the other corresponding gamete (the male gamete) of the same species. The egg cells of higher animals and plants are female gametes.
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  1. In organisms that reproduce sexually, being the gamete that is larger and less motile than the other corresponding gamete (the male gamete) of the same species. The egg cells of higher animals and plants are female gametes.
  2. Bearing pistils but not stamens; pistillate:
  3. Having the genitalia or other structures typical of a female organism. Worker ants are female but sterile.
feminine
Suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly
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  1. Suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly
  2. Female; of women or girls
  3. (Grammar) Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to females or to things grammatically classified as female.
womanly
Characteristic of or fit for a woman; womanlike
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  1. Characteristic of or fit for a woman; womanlike
  2. Fully developed as a woman, as in having a curvaceous figure:
  3. Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female.
effeminate
Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly:
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  1. Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly:
  2. Characterized by such qualities; weak; soft, decadent, etc.
  3. Having the qualities generally attributed to women, as weakness, timidity, delicacy, etc.; unmanly; not virile
epicene
Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to the other sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate.
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  1. Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to the other sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate.
  2. Designating a noun, as in Latin or Greek, having only one grammatical form to denote an individual of either sex
  3. Having no characteristics of either sex.
feminine
(Gram.) Designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting, or referring to, females as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed
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  1. (Gram.) Designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting, or referring to, females as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed
  2. Suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly
  3. Having qualities regarded as characteristic of women and girls, as gentleness, weakness, delicacy, or modesty
unmanly
Lacking courage, resoluteness, etc.; cowardly, weak, etc.
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  1. Lacking courage, resoluteness, etc.; cowardly, weak, etc.
  2. (Of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
  3. Of or pertaining to something not human.
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Sentence Examples

  • womanish ways.

  • Hedda is a woman who wishes to thrust aside all womanish ways.

  • Ivanushka, sipping out of her saucer, looked with sly womanish eyes from under her brows at the young men.

  • Though she concealed from him her intention of keeping him under her wing, Petya guessed her designs, and instinctively fearing that he might give way to emotion when with her--might "become womanish" as he termed it to himself--he treated her coldly, avoided her, and during his stay in Moscow attached himself exclusively to Natasha for whom he had always had a particularly brotherly tenderness, almost lover-like.

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