Womanish

a.

1.

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. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike. - Ascham.

Adj.

1.

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

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

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