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Manly vs Manlike - What's the difference?

manly | manlike |

As adjectives the difference between manly and manlike

is that manly is having the characteristics of a man while manlike is of or characteristic of grown men, as opposed to women or children; macho, mannish, virile.

manly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the characteristics of a man.
  • Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
  • * Dryden
    • Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
  • * 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
    • Without a successful defense of one's city, none of the other virtues would be possible; manly courage seems to be a precondition for anything else worth achieving in life.

    Derived terms

    * manliness

    Antonyms

    * womanly

    manlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or characteristic of grown men, as opposed to women or children; macho, mannish, virile.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:In events, I carry my selfe man-like ; in the conduct childishly.
  • Of or relating to a human being; anthropoid, anthropomorphous.
    • The legendary Bigfoot is said to be a manlike creature.