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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. befitting a woman of good breeding;
- Example: "ladylike manners"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ladylike \La"dy*like`\, a. 1. Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. [1913 Webster] She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 2. Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." --Warner. [1913 Webster] 3. Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. [1913 Webster] Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ladylike adj 1: befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "ladylike": aristocratic, chivalrous, correct, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, decorous, dignified, distaff, ducal, elegant, exalted, female, feminine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gracious, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, high, highbred, kinglike, kingly, kittenish, knightly, little-girlish, maidenly, mannerly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, noble, of gentle blood, of rank, patrician, petticoat, polished, polite, princelike, princely, proper, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, refined, respectable, titled, well-bred, well-brought-up, womanish, womanlike, womanly