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Womanlike

Womanlike \Wom"an*like\, a. Like a woman; womanly.

Womanlike, taking revenge too deep.
--Tennyson.

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womanlike

a. 1 befitting or characteristic of a woman. 2 Resembling a woman; feminine; (of a man) effeminate. adv. In a manner perceived to be characteristic of a woman.

WordNet
womanlike
  1. adj. resembling a woman; "a womanlike stone image"

  2. n. the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female [syn: womanliness]

Usage examples of "womanlike".

CDs would abhor an androgynous society because it would destroy the very thing they seek: the experience of being womanlike.

Womanlike, Doris Rives was thinking particularly rather than generally and of humans rather than abstractions.

He held himself very still, vaguely disturbed that calm acceptance came so easily, particularly when very womanlike lips pressed his, more so when his lips opened willinglyher will, a voice deep within him objectedand a strange, delicate flickering investigated the inside of his mouth.

It was womanlike for her to do so, but odds of ten thousand to one had no appeal for Hornblower.