Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men;
- Example: "womanish tears"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Womanish \Wom"an*ish\, a.
Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman;
effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful
sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are
womanish." --Shak. " Womanish entreaties." --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but
audible, strong, and manlike. --Ascham.
[1913 Webster] -- Wom"an*ish*ly, adv. -- Wom"an*ish*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
womanish
adj 1: having characteristics associated with women and
considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "womanish":
breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty,
delicate, delicately weak, distaff, effeminate, female, feminine,
flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gentlewomanlike, gimcrack,
gimcracky, girlish, gossamery, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, jerry,
jerry-built, kittenish, ladylike, light, lightweight,
little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly,
muliebral, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery,
pasteboardy, petticoat, prissy, puny, shattery, sissified, sissy,
sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, unmanly, unsubstantial,
wispy, womanlike, womanly