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girly

girly

49 3.7
Having a cute, soft style with lace, ribbons, or pastel colors
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡɜrli/
  • Informal
translation icon : femenino
  • 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.

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Examples

  • I want to feel pretty and girly and colorful.

  • It's very like bubbly and like girly, feminine and young and like for the daytime.

  • I like the fact as well, though, that it's girly but also blue.

  • Basically make me look as girly as possible.

  • I just feel like we're going super girly, obviously.

  • And you know, pink is considered this very girly color now.

  • I love all things girly, makeup, pink, fluffy, whatever.

  • A date with a potential lover: something girly, frilly, and revealing.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • It's really trendy and cute and girly and I love the butterflies and I love the colors.

  • I've been using the color Sweet Dreams which is like this really sort of girly, not me at all, pastly pink.

Synonyms

cute
vsgirly
1.0

Attractive in a small, pretty, or charming way

uses that charm but links it specifically to feminine, delicate style
pretty
vsgirly
1.0

Nice to look at in a gentle, simple way

adds a specifically feminine, cute nuance rather than general attractiveness
feminine
vsgirly
173 3.4

Having style or qualities people often connect with women

adds more cute and delicate tone than adult woman associations
girlish
vsgirly
21 3.5

Having innocent, playful ways like a young girl

focuses more on cute and delicate feminine appearance than youth alone
girlie
vsgirly
  • Informal
13 5.6

Made for girls with a very feminine, young style

is about feminine or delicate traits without stressing stereotype
superfeminine
vsgirly
7.6

A very traditional women's style with pink clothes and lots of makeup

describes feminine traits more mildly and with gentle charm

Antonyms

85 3.7

Having qualities people often connect with men, for example strength and toughness

27 3.0

Like a young boy in look or behavior, showing innocence and being playful

How Girly

girly
  • Informal
49 3.7
girlish
21 3.5
feminine
173 3.4

Surface Forms

girly positive

Morphology

girly = girl (transparent) = girl + y

A straightforward adjectival formation from 'girl' + '-y' meaning 'characteristic of girls'.

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.