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Girly vs Ethereal - What's the difference?

girly | ethereal |

As adjectives the difference between girly and ethereal

is that girly is characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet while ethereal is pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

As a noun girly

is (child speak ) girl.

girly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet

    • Usage notes

    * Girly may be applied to a person of either sex and of any age.

    Synonyms

    * (applied to a girl or woman ): feminine, girlish, womanly * (applied to a boy or man ): effeminate, unmanly

    Antonyms

    * (applied to a girl or woman ): butch, hoyden, hoydenish, mannish, masculine, tomboyish, unwomanly * (applied to a boy or man ): butch, manly, masculine

    Derived terms

    * girly girl * girlyman

    Noun

    (girlies)
  • (child speak ) girl

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    ethereal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * aethereal * aetherial * * (obsolete) * * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
  • * 1667 : , Paradise Lost , book VII
    • Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.
  • * 1862 : , Walking .
    • I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal , as our sky,...
  • Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
  • * 1733 : , An Essay on Man
    • Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal , human, angel, man.
  • Delicate, light and airy.

    • Derived terms

    * ethereality * ethereally * etherealness * etherealization * etherealisation * etherealizing

    References

    * American English forms