Womanly

Word WOMANLY
Character 7
Hyphenation wom an ly
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Womanly"

What do we mean by womanly?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of women, often in showing qualities traditionally attributed to women. adjective

Fully developed as a woman, as in having a curvaceous figure. adjective

In the manner of a woman.

Characteristic of, like, or befitting a woman; suiting a woman; feminine; not masculine; not girlish: as, womanly behavior.

Synonyms Womanish, Ladylike, etc. See feminine.

Becoming a woman; feminine. adjective

In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman. adverb

Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female. adjective

Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman adjective

Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Womanly

The word "womanly" in example sentences

It could be part culture that being womanly is being pleasant and agreeable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I call womanly; it was not like Ethelbertha at all. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Study, exercise, housework, and many wholesome pleasures kept her a happy, hearty creature, yearly growing in womanly graces, yet always preserving the innocent freshness girls lose so soon when too early set upon the world's stage and given a part to play. ❋ Unknown (1876)

What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

She's not what I call womanly, and I hate these unsexed females. " ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)

"That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)

Young Gulick had soon decided that Susan was the stronger -- therefore, the less "womanly" -- of the two girls, and must be the evil influence over her whom he had appeared just in time to save. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The explanation of her strange aberration, which will be doubted or secretly condemned by every woman of the sheltered classes who loves her dependence and seeks to disguise it as something sweet and fine and "womanly" -- the explanation of her almost insane act of renunciation of all that a lady holds most dear is simple enough, puzzling though she found it. ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)

He recalled the womanly dignity of the figure descending the shallow steps, the arch accost of the soft eyes, the dimple in the round check. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

"Now, you are what I would call womanly -- the womanliest woman I've ever known." ❋ Unknown (1903)

Now we have seen that our marriage laws will not stand criticism, and that they have held out so far only because they are so worked as to fit roughly our state of society, in which women are neither politically nor personally free, in which indeed women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

She got up from the grass, plucked herself out of that paroxysm of mental pain which came too near lunacy, and began to walk slowly round the garden-paths, reasoning with herself, calling womanly pride to the rescue. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Her example has a special message to women, and exhorts them to see to it that, in the cultivation of the so-called womanly excellence of gentleness, they do not let it run into weakness, nor, on the other hand, aim at strength, to the loss of meekness. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

The more her education has been neglected, the greater is her chance of remaining womanly, that is to say, intelligent, tender, and charming. ❋ Edmond About (1856)

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