Womanish Definition

wo͝omə-nĭsh
adjective
Like, characteristic of, or suitable to a woman; feminine or effeminate.
Webster's New World
Imitative or suggestive of a woman rather than a man.
American Heritage

Carried out by or pertaining to a woman. [from 14th c.]

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Origin of Womanish

  • From woman +"Ž -ish.

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Womanish Sentence Examples

  • Ivanushka, sipping out of her saucer, looked with sly womanish eyes from under her brows at the young men.

  • Hedda is a woman who wishes to thrust aside all womanish ways.

  • Though she concealed from him her intention of keeping him under her wing, Petya guessed her designs, and instinctively fearing that he might give way to emotion when with her--might "become womanish" as he termed it to himself--he treated her coldly, avoided her, and during his stay in Moscow attached himself exclusively to Natasha for whom he had always had a particularly brotherly tenderness, almost lover-like.

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Words Starting With

WWOWOM

Words Ending With

HSHISH

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womanish

Words Starting With W and Ending With H

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