'Girlish' definitions:
Definition of 'girlish'
From: WordNet
adjective
Befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear" [syn: girlish, schoolgirlish]
Definition of 'Girlish'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'girlish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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