womanly

[US]/'wʊmənlɪ/

[UK]/'wʊmənli/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj.having qualities traditionally associated with women

I've got a womanly figure.

her smooth, womanly skin.

She showed a womanly concern for their health.

womanly attire.See Synonyms at feminine

The sight of him filled her with a womanly sympathy.

One guy who's evidently intimidated by full-sized womanly breasts.

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 5

She was more attractive, better educated and more womanly.

Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (abridged version)

She looked more adult and womanly than she really was.

Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (abridged version)

And Kate-- Kate's gonna get womanly.

Source: Our Day This Season 1

What a helpless, sweet, womanly little thing she was.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Other ways of describing people, you can describe them as masculine or feminine, boyish, manly, girly, womanly.

Source: English With Lucy (Bilingual Experience)

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years, and Sarah had stopped having her womanly periods.

Source: New American Bible

She should have all womanly care, all gentle tendance.

Source: South and North (Middle)

There was an earnest womanly compassion for me in her new affection.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

The body might be quite womanly, but the face reminded her of an unripe apple.

Source: Sophie's World (Original Version)

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