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womanlike

[ woom-uhn-lahyk ]

/ ˈwʊm ənˌlaɪk /

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adjective

like a woman; womanly.

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Origin of womanlike

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; see origin at woman, -like

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OTHER WORDS FROM womanlike

un·wom·an·like, adjective

Words nearby womanlike

womanish, womanist, womanize, womanizer, womankind, womanlike, womanly, woman of letters, woman of the hour, woman of the house, woman of the streets

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How to use womanlike in a sentence

Womanlike, she felt certain that the other girl was not good enough for David.
Patchwork|Anna Balmer Myers
Womanlike, she tried to pay part of it by urging him to do something he considered impossible.
Operation Terror|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Womanlike, she turned to King in that minute and confided to him her very inmost thoughts.
King--of the Khyber Rifles|Talbot Mundy
Lady Laura had not a word more to say about Phineas to her father; but, womanlike, she resolved that she would not abandon him.
Phineas Finn|Anthony Trollope

Womanlike, Doris Rives was thinking particularly rather than generally and of humans rather than abstractions.
Day of the Moron|Henry Beam Piper