Girlish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Girlish \Girl"ish\, a.
     Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to
     girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish
     ways; girlish grief. -- {Girl"ish*ly}, adv. --
     {Girl"ish*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  girlish
       adj : befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish
             charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear"
             [syn: {schoolgirlish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "girlish":
     airy, attenuate, attenuated, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike,
     childish, childlike, coltish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted,
     distaff, ethereal, female, feminine, fine, fine-drawn, finespun,
     flimsy, frail, gauzy, gentlewomanlike, girllike, gossamer, gracile,
     gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, insubstantial, kiddish, kittenish, lacy,
     ladylike, light, little-girlish, maiden, maidenly, matronal,
     matronlike, matronly, misty, muliebral, papery, petticoat, puerile,
     puplike, puppyish, puppylike, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish,
     slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte,
     sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun,
     thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down,
     watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish, womanlike,
     womanly