Feminine vs Girlish - What's the difference?
feminine | girlish |
Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
That which is feminine.
A woman.
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(grammar) The feminine gender.
(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
* Latham:
Like a girl; feminine.
Of or relating to girlhood.
* Carew
As adjectives the difference between feminine and girlish
is that feminine is while girlish is like a girl; feminine.feminine
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
- Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine .
- Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
- Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine , and subject to ease and delicacy.
Synonyms
* (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturingAntonyms
* (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuterDerived terms
* femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminizeNoun
(en noun)- They guide the feminines toward the palace.
- There are but few true feminines in English.
girlish
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Adjective
(en adjective)- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
