girly
- adjective
- /ˈɡɜrli/
- Informal
- She wore a girly dress that had lace and pastel colors.
- a girly girl
- too girly
- girly stuff
So you kind of want to do like girly makeup but dead.
- So you kind of want to do like girly makeup but dead.
- I love all things girly, makeup, pink, fluffy, whatever.
- Basically make me look as girly as possible.
- It's very like bubbly and like girly, feminine and young and like for the daytime.
- It's really trendy and cute and girly and I love the butterflies and I love the colors.
- This first one I got is just so cute and girly to me.
- You've got the same sort of Princess seams which are just so girly and sweet.
- It's sparkly, it's beautiful, it's girly, it's edgy.
- This is a really cute girly top.
- It goes in at the middle and it's quite short, but it's also quite girly and cutesy.
Examples
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I want to feel pretty and girly and colorful.
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It's very like bubbly and like girly, feminine and young and like for the daytime.
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I like the fact as well, though, that it's girly but also blue.
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Basically make me look as girly as possible.
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I just feel like we're going super girly, obviously.
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And you know, pink is considered this very girly color now.
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I love all things girly, makeup, pink, fluffy, whatever.
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A date with a potential lover: something girly, frilly, and revealing.
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It's really trendy and cute and girly and I love the butterflies and I love the colors.
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I've been using the color Sweet Dreams which is like this really sort of girly, not me at all, pastly pink.
Synonyms
Attractive in a small, pretty, or charming way
Nice to look at in a gentle, simple way
Having style or qualities people often connect with women
Having innocent, playful ways like a young girl
Made for girls with a very feminine, young style
A very traditional women's style with pink clothes and lots of makeup
Antonyms
How Girly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Girly comes from the word girl plus the ending -y, which works like in cloudy to mean 'like' or 'full of'. So girly literally means 'like a girl', often used for things that are cute, feminine, or delicate.