Womanish

3 definitions found

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

  Womanish \Wom"an*ish\, a.
     Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman;
     effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful
     sense. See the Note under {Effeminate}. " Thy tears are
     womanish." --Shak. " Womanish entreaties." --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but
           audible, strong, and manlike.            --Ascham.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Wom"an*ish*ly}, adv. -- {Wom"an*ish*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  womanish
       adj : having characteristics associated with women and considered
             undesirable in men; "womanish tears"

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

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "womanish":
     breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty,
     delicate, delicately weak, distaff, effeminate, female, feminine,
     flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gentlewomanlike, gimcrack,
     gimcracky, girlish, gossamery, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, jerry,
     jerry-built, kittenish, ladylike, light, lightweight,
     little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly,
     muliebral, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery,
     pasteboardy, petticoat, prissy, puny, shattery, sissified, sissy,
     sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, unmanly, unsubstantial,
     wispy, womanlike, womanly