Womanish synonyms

wo͝om'ə-nĭsh

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effeminate
The definition of effeminate is behaving like a woman or in a weak way.
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womanly
Like a woman; womanish
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feminine (related)
Effeminate; womanish.
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weak (related)
Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing:
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female (related)
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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unmasculine
Not masculine; effeminate or feminine.
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distaff
Female; specif., designating the maternal side of a family
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epicene
Having no characteristics of either sex.
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sissified
Made like a sissy. Effete.
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sissyish
Having qualities more appropriate to women than to men
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unmanly
Of or pertaining to something not human.
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gender (related)
Of, relating to, or characteristic of women
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Womanish Sentence Examples

  • 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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