womanly
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈwʊmənli/
:
femenino
- Are you doing womanly things down in the woods with those boys?
- womanly virtue
- womanly nature
Well, she looks exactly like this except more womanly.
- Well, she looks exactly like this except more womanly.
- Because the first time I didn't do my waist and because I thought I was going to look like too too womanly.
Examples
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But she's getting older, more womanly.
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Dark hair past her shoulders, womanly curves, generous breasts, good muscles, and nice long lashes framing hazel eyes.
Fiction book (1994) -
Now, I think she is much more beautiful and womanly, and, like I am, a bit older.
Fiction book (1998) -
I have you, and I have being a woman, and I have been thinking about womanly things!
Fiction book (2001) -
I married you because you were Kind and gentle and womanly and understanding.
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It is your womanly duty.
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Later, she reconceptualized her religious mission as one of becoming a model of womanly virtue.
Academic text (1994) -
All wifely solicitude and womanly kindness, with a small dab of maternal pity mixed in.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her womanly compassion was evident as she comforted her friend during difficult times.
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He appreciated her womanly qualities, such as her warmth and understanding nature.
Synonyms
173
3.4
Having style or qualities people often connect with women
15
5.0
Polite and calm in the way a woman with good manners acts
Having the looks or shape of a woman
Having neat, polite style and manners like a proper woman
Antonyms
How Feminine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Womanly comes from the noun woman plus the adjective ending -ly, and woman originally meant 'female person' and was linked to an old word for 'wife'. So, womanly means 'like a woman', for example showing gentleness or compassion.