'Womanish' definitions:
Definition of 'womanish'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"
Definition of 'Womanish'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'womanish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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