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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for womanish
Adjective
  • The expressive eyes, hyper-pigmented blush, and ultra-feminine style are all part of her signature face.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her subsequent press wardrobe, in comparison, has delighted in her signature red carpet and glitzy event style, with super-feminine, dramatic silhouettes and princessy aesthetics.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Having female service members with the male combat troops allowed the military to speak to female civilians to get information or to provide help.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2025
  • About a half hour earlier, deputies with the department responded to a weapons disturbance call after a female family member alerted authorities that Lacy had allegedly been involved in a verbal argument with her and had discharged a firearm into the ground.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Phil initially teases Peter for being weak and effeminate.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 7 Oct. 2025.

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