1
as in feminine
of or relating to a man who has or displays qualities traditionally considered more suitable for women
such displays of emotion were once considered womanish and unseemly for a man
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2
as in female
of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women
she had a womanish gentleness, especially when dealing with children, that he loved
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Adjective
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Instagram star Leonie Hanne ensured a rugged military-style utility shirt looked soft and feminine by sticking to a harmonious color palette.—
Freya Drohan,
InStyle,
20 Jan. 2026 -
Part of this reflects the culture in South Korea, where rigid beauty standards have traditionally valued fair skin, slender physiques and hyper-feminine features.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The male has binoculars scanning the sea, while the female guard is in action, as if jumping off of a tower, fins and buoy in hand.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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While the general grifter is allowed to reinvent themselves, be openly ambitious, and romanticize their crimes, the female grifter—and especially the SGG—is met with significantly less permission and a higher demand for likability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Phil initially teases Peter for being weak and effeminate.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
25 Sep. 2025
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So in a move that no one had approved, Wayans put on an effeminate voice for the character in hopes Executive Producer Lorne Michaels would be angry.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In Benediction, Terence Davies had to split Siegfried Sassoon into two (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) to create a comparably complex personality, but Scott’s Adam is all the more moving for being less refined, a performance of sustained fragility and unmanly truth.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2023
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Why is his governess, Mrs. Brock, fired for encouraging Richard’s unmanly interest in poetry and music?—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Nov. 2018
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“Womanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/womanish. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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