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[syn: girlish, schoolgirlish]
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
girlish
adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish
charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear" [syn:
girlish, schoolgirlish]
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