1
as in male
of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with men
a woman with a somewhat mannish gait
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2
as in masculine
having qualities or traits that are traditionally considered inappropriate for a girl or woman
worked on the assembly line wearing a T-shirt and mannish overalls
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Recent Examples of mannish
Could mannish tailoring and ‘80s gaudiness be on their way out?
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Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Jennifer Cuvillier, style director at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche
Top trends: Business bags, larger-sized bags to fit a computer, which link with the office-business trend, novelty suiting, new oversize and powerful volumes, as well as with the mannish derby shoes silhouettes.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
Here, the suffragists portrayed are mannish and middle-aged, typical of many negative suffragist depictions, stereotyping them as unsexed spinsters.
—Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
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Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Jennifer Cuvillier, style director at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche
Top trends: Business bags, larger-sized bags to fit a computer, which link with the office-business trend, novelty suiting, new oversize and powerful volumes, as well as with the mannish derby shoes silhouettes.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
Here, the suffragists portrayed are mannish and middle-aged, typical of many negative suffragist depictions, stereotyping them as unsexed spinsters.
—Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannish
Adjective
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And while Sturm offers a small group of men’s options (the Face Cream Men doubles as an after-shave soother), some of her male clientele seem content to buy the primary unisex line.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
18 Oct. 2025
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But, in 1944, when the field of medical ethics was still developing, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota, recruited thirty-six male conscientious objectors to voluntarily starve themselves.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The conservative desire to return to an earlier heyday—one that is rustic, masculine, and rugged, rather than soft, feminine, and urban—is ancient.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Loafers, softer and quite cozy or completely masculine.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Dior’s collection referenced the H-line created by its founder Christian Dior for Fall-Winter 1954-1955 – a controversial silhouette at the time as its flattened shape appeared, for some, unfeminine.—
Alice Pfeiffer,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025
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The intention behind this final postcard may have been, yet again, to paint the fight for suffrage as absurd, to make suffragists seem like willful, unfeminine animals.—
Natalie Kinkade,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2024
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“Mannish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannish. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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