girlish English

Meaning girlish meaning

What does girlish mean?

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girlish Adjective

— If someone is girlish, they act, look, or sound like a young girl. Her girlish voice had deepened with age. She had a cute, girlish face, with short dark hair cut in a bob. The dress was bound tightly at the waist, showing off a slim girlish figure. Young kids go for typically "girlish" or "boyish" toys before they try others.

girlish

— adjective (= schoolgirlish) befitting or characteristic of a young girl girlish charm a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear

Synonyms girlish synonyms

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girlish English » English

teenage

maidenly

maiden

young

schoolgirlish

juvenile

immature

coquettish

boyish

adolescent

unhappy

naive

maidenlike

maidenish

girly

girlie

gentle

feminine

bread-and-butter

affected

Topics girlish topics

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Person Life Male, female

Woman

• What words describe a woman?
  bitch busty catty curvaceous dish distaff doll estrous girlish hag hussy maidenly menopausal shrew slatternly slattern slut unfeminine unladylike virginal womanish womanlike

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Mature in behavior

Immature in behavior

• What words describe someone who is immature?
  immature babyish boyish callow childlike childish girlish inexperienced infantile irresponsible naive puerile rookie sophomoric spoiled