girlish

3 definitions found

girlish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

girlish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  girlish
      adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish
             charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear" [syn:
             girlish, schoolgirlish]

girlish - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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