unmanlikeadj.adv.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈmanlʌɪk/, U.S.

/ˌənˈmænˌlaɪk/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and manlike adj. and adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, manlike adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + manlike adj.

A. adj.

1. Lacking human decency or compassion; brutally harsh or cruel; inhuman. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]

grimlyc893

retheeOE

grim971

bitterOE

bremec1175

grillc1175

grimfula1240

cruel1297

sturdy1297

fiercea1300

fellc1300

boistousa1387

felonousc1386

savagea1393

bestiala1398

bremelya1400

felona1400

hetera1400

cursedc1400

wicked14..

vengeablec1430

wolvishc1430

unnatural?1473

inhuman1481

brutisha1513

cruent1524

felonish1530

mannish1530

abominate1531

lionish1549

boarish?1550

truculent?c1550

unhumanc1550

lion-like1556

beastly1558

orped1567

raw?1573

tigerish?1573

unmanlike1579

boisterous1581

savaged1583

tiger-like1587

yond1590

truculental1593

savage wild1595

tigerous1597

inhumane1598

Neronian1598

immane1599

Phalarical1602

ungentle1603

feral1604

savagious1605

fierceful1607

Dionysian1608

wolvy1611

Hunnish1625

lionly1631

tigerly1633

savage-hearted1639

brutal1641

feroce1641

ferocious1646

asperous1650

ferousa1652

wolfish1674

tiger1763

savage-fierce1770

Tartar1809

Tartarly1821

Neroic1851

tigery1859

Neronic1864

unmannish1867

inhumanitarian1947

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective] > inhumanly

inhuman1481

unhumanc1550

beastly1558

unmanlike1579

inhumane1598

immane1599

Phalarical1602

unhuman1611

brutal1641

unmannish1867

brutalitarian1904

inhumanitarian1947

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. E.7 That barbarous, vnmanlike, and treasonable victory vpon the noble Admiral.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xii. sig. H5 The vnman-like cruelty of mankind.

1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iv. sig. H2 And wud you..kill her in your rage too? O 'twere most vn-manlike.

1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory ii. xiv. 556 Use not wrath and unmanlike fury with them [sc. servants]; nor any over-severe or unnecessary rebukes or chastisements.

1753 ‘W. Bingfield’ Trav. I. iv. 49 He [sc. a lion] looked so weak and almost a Skeleton, that it seemed too unmanlike an Action in us to distress so worn out an Object.

1835 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 12 Dec. (1910) III. 574 I strongly feel the inhumanity or unmanlike character of war.

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) i. 5 Pertiscus..let him be, whether out of pity or for fear lest his taking off might be thought to argue too unmanlike a cruelty.

2. Inappropriate to or unbefitting a man; beneath the standards of behaviour expected of a man; dishonourable, shameful, ungentlemanly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > inappropriate to man

unmanlike1579

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. F.4^v Which makes vs in England to find very strange, this vnmanlike, vnprincelike, secrete, fearful, suspitious, disdainful, needy french kind of woeng in Monsieur.

1628 T. Atkinson Let. 17 Sept. in J. H. Bettey Cal. Corr. Smyth Family Ashton Court (1982) 93 Many unchristianlike railing, indeed unmanlike speeches against the Duke even to the chalking out his individuall place in Hell.

1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin vi. 122 As if he were proud of such an unmanlike tergiversation.

1702 R. Cocks Diary 29 Jan. in Parl. Diary (1996) 191 The consequence was just since the beginning was s[o in]solent and unmanlike to run a man quite down that was going down before.

1782 Public Advertiser 12 Aug. A Lieutenant, who..with an unmanlike Treachery promised him every Indulgence until he got him on board.

1851 Morning Post 12 July 5/5 A more unmanlike display [of boxing] we never witnessed.

1899 Millersburg (Indiana) Grit. 21 Dec. When a man's hypocrisy is unmanlike, and he holds up his head as if he had nothing to be ashamed of, [etc.].

2013 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 12 June c4 It was very unmanlike to deny that you did it on purpose.

3. Unlike or uncharacteristic of a man (esp. as opposed to a woman or child), or of a human being (as opposed to an animal, supernatural being, etc.).

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xviii. sig. Aa5^v It was the voice of a man, though it were a verie vnmanlike voice.

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxvii. sig. P2 They..smelt of oyle the witnesse of an vnmanlike effeminate nicenesse.

1736 E. Smith Cure of Deism I. v. 145 To drop one Half of the Reason of Things..is certainly a very irrational, unmanlike Spirituality.

?1760 Sc. Marine II. ii. 36 The Majority by far are shocking, all like Spectres, with borrowed Visages, unmanlike, even those of them most resembling the human Species.

1852 Amer. Whig Rev. Aug. 149/2 I..had awakened to a most un-manlike appearance of juvenility.

1922 ‘K. Mansfield’ Garden Party (1923) 101 But Cyril was most unmanlike in appetite.

1962 J. C. Guignard in Impact Acceleration Stress (National Acad. Sci.) 306 So far, the dummies tested have turned out to be quite unmanlike.

1991 B. Lumley Necroscope: Deadspawn iv. vii. 578 For all that the Fallen One was alien, unmanlike, unreadable, still there was that in his poise..which spoke of an almost human uncertainty and apprehension.

4. Lacking qualities traditionally associated with men, such as courage, fortitude, self-control, etc.; characterized by weakness or timidity; unmasculine, effeminate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective]

womanly?c1225

ferbleta1300

effeminatea1393

nicea1393

softc1450

manlessa1529

unmanly1534

cockney1573

effeminated1580

unmanlikea1586

milky1602

enervate1603

womanizing1615

emasculate1622

womanized1624

softly1643

womanlish1647

unmasculine1649

emollid1656

ladylike1656

enervated1660

emasculated1701

petticoated1708

tea-faced1728

effeminized1789

invirile1870

epicene1881

sissyish1889

sissified1898

devirilized1901

cockless1902

camp1909

pansy1929

campy1932

queenly1933

poncy1937

pansyish1941

swishy1941

moffie1954

poofy1956

femme1963

poofed-up1964

minty1965

ponced-up1970

lavender1979

the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > unworthy of or unbefitting a man

unmanlya1398

unmanlikea1586

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xviii. sig. Aa7^v Neuer was there man that could..with a more vnmanlike brauerie vse his tongue to her disgrace.

1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision sig. A5^v He with vnmanlike Curiousnesse was dect.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii 'Tis most justly so ordered..that you your self should live in a scandalous most unmanlike slavery at home.

?1754 Mock Monarchs I. xvi. 182 It shames me, my fair one, to think how unmanlike I must appear before you, in that filthy Woman's Covering.

1836 ‘Pedestres’ & ‘C. Woodenpeg’ Pedestrian Tour through Wales & Eng. I. Pref. p. vii No earthly being has the slightest notion of my undignified and unmanlike pranks.

1876 Vermont Watchman 20 Dec. He trembled extremely, and was guilty of the unmanlike act of hiding behind the curtain.

1919 B. Tarkington Ramsey Milholland xviii. 185 He might be afraid of some idiot's thinking him un-manlike.

2010 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 31 Jan. A director at the Family and Marriage Association..said abused men were labelled ‘un-manlike’.

†5. Excessively lewd or licentious; sexually perverted. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [adjective] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable

unmanlike1636

spintrian1656

paraphiliac1935

paraphilic1952

kinky1959

pervo1970

pervy1970

1636 P. Heylyn Hist. Sabbath ii. iv. 105 Those, who left the Church and publicke service of the Lord, to goe to those impure delights, and unmanlike spectacles.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iv. 26 Having got Possession of a Man who was committed for certain odious unmanlike Practices, not fit to be named.

B. adv.

In an unmanly manner; unmanfully; (also) in a manner untypical of a human being (as opposed to an animal). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [adverb] > unmanlike

unmanlike1602

1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxxvi. f. 241 Not leauing her owne wearing garments behinde him..to couer nakednes, but (vnmanlike) thus left there lying on the bare ground.

1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B4^v Their God-like Issue thriue, Whilst I vn-man-like must desttoy [sic] my babes.

1690 ‘N. N. Philanthropos’ Let. Gentleman Treat. Two Hundred Queries 53 Unmannerly and unmanlike traduced with those vile Names of Papist, Jesuit, Atheist, and what not.

1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Fippil, to whimper or sob, to utter a plaintive sound, to behave unmanlike.

1881 D. C. Murray Joseph's Coat xxvii [He] snuffled unmanlike through his tears.

1975 Field & Stream Oct. 90/1 I've walked up on countless grouse moving unmanlike.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	unmanlike
释义	unmanlikeadj.adv. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈmanlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˌənˈmænˌlaɪk/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and manlike adj. and adv. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, manlike adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + manlike adj. A. adj. 1. Lacking human decency or compassion; brutally harsh or cruel; inhuman. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective] > inhumanly inhuman1481 unhumanc1550 beastly1558 unmanlike1579 inhumane1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 unhuman1611 brutal1641 unmannish1867 brutalitarian1904 inhumanitarian1947 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. E.7 That barbarous, vnmanlike, and treasonable victory vpon the noble Admiral. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xii. sig. H5 The vnman-like cruelty of mankind. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iv. sig. H2 And wud you..kill her in your rage too? O 'twere most vn-manlike. 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory ii. xiv. 556 Use not wrath and unmanlike fury with them [sc. servants]; nor any over-severe or unnecessary rebukes or chastisements. 1753 ‘W. Bingfield’ Trav. I. iv. 49 He [sc. a lion] looked so weak and almost a Skeleton, that it seemed too unmanlike an Action in us to distress so worn out an Object. 1835 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 12 Dec. (1910) III. 574 I strongly feel the inhumanity or unmanlike character of war. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) i. 5 Pertiscus..let him be, whether out of pity or for fear lest his taking off might be thought to argue too unmanlike a cruelty. 2. Inappropriate to or unbefitting a man; beneath the standards of behaviour expected of a man; dishonourable, shameful, ungentlemanly. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > inappropriate to man unmanlike1579 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. F.4^v Which makes vs in England to find very strange, this vnmanlike, vnprincelike, secrete, fearful, suspitious, disdainful, needy french kind of woeng in Monsieur. 1628 T. Atkinson Let. 17 Sept. in J. H. Bettey Cal. Corr. Smyth Family Ashton Court (1982) 93 Many unchristianlike railing, indeed unmanlike speeches against the Duke even to the chalking out his individuall place in Hell. 1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin vi. 122 As if he were proud of such an unmanlike tergiversation. 1702 R. Cocks Diary 29 Jan. in Parl. Diary (1996) 191 The consequence was just since the beginning was s[o in]solent and unmanlike to run a man quite down that was going down before. 1782 Public Advertiser 12 Aug. A Lieutenant, who..with an unmanlike Treachery promised him every Indulgence until he got him on board. 1851 Morning Post 12 July 5/5 A more unmanlike display [of boxing] we never witnessed. 1899 Millersburg (Indiana) Grit. 21 Dec. When a man's hypocrisy is unmanlike, and he holds up his head as if he had nothing to be ashamed of, [etc.]. 2013 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 12 June c4 It was very unmanlike to deny that you did it on purpose. 3. Unlike or uncharacteristic of a man (esp. as opposed to a woman or child), or of a human being (as opposed to an animal, supernatural being, etc.). ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xviii. sig. Aa5^v It was the voice of a man, though it were a verie vnmanlike voice. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxvii. sig. P2 They..smelt of oyle the witnesse of an vnmanlike effeminate nicenesse. 1736 E. Smith Cure of Deism I. v. 145 To drop one Half of the Reason of Things..is certainly a very irrational, unmanlike Spirituality. ?1760 Sc. Marine II. ii. 36 The Majority by far are shocking, all like Spectres, with borrowed Visages, unmanlike, even those of them most resembling the human Species. 1852 Amer. Whig Rev. Aug. 149/2 I..had awakened to a most un-manlike appearance of juvenility. 1922 ‘K. Mansfield’ Garden Party (1923) 101 But Cyril was most unmanlike in appetite. 1962 J. C. Guignard in Impact Acceleration Stress (National Acad. Sci.) 306 So far, the dummies tested have turned out to be quite unmanlike. 1991 B. Lumley Necroscope: Deadspawn iv. vii. 578 For all that the Fallen One was alien, unmanlike, unreadable, still there was that in his poise..which spoke of an almost human uncertainty and apprehension. 4. Lacking qualities traditionally associated with men, such as courage, fortitude, self-control, etc.; characterized by weakness or timidity; unmasculine, effeminate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective] womanly?c1225 ferbleta1300 effeminatea1393 nicea1393 softc1450 manlessa1529 unmanly1534 cockney1573 effeminated1580 unmanlikea1586 milky1602 enervate1603 womanizing1615 emasculate1622 womanized1624 softly1643 womanlish1647 unmasculine1649 emollid1656 ladylike1656 enervated1660 emasculated1701 petticoated1708 tea-faced1728 effeminized1789 invirile1870 epicene1881 sissyish1889 sissified1898 devirilized1901 cockless1902 camp1909 pansy1929 campy1932 queenly1933 poncy1937 pansyish1941 swishy1941 moffie1954 poofy1956 femme1963 poofed-up1964 minty1965 ponced-up1970 lavender1979 the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > unworthy of or unbefitting a man unmanlya1398 unmanlikea1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xviii. sig. Aa7^v Neuer was there man that could..with a more vnmanlike brauerie vse his tongue to her disgrace. 1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision sig. A5^v He with vnmanlike Curiousnesse was dect. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii 'Tis most justly so ordered..that you your self should live in a scandalous most unmanlike slavery at home. ?1754 Mock Monarchs I. xvi. 182 It shames me, my fair one, to think how unmanlike I must appear before you, in that filthy Woman's Covering. 1836 ‘Pedestres’ & ‘C. Woodenpeg’ Pedestrian Tour through Wales & Eng. I. Pref. p. vii No earthly being has the slightest notion of my undignified and unmanlike pranks. 1876 Vermont Watchman 20 Dec. He trembled extremely, and was guilty of the unmanlike act of hiding behind the curtain. 1919 B. Tarkington Ramsey Milholland xviii. 185 He might be afraid of some idiot's thinking him un-manlike. 2010 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 31 Jan. A director at the Family and Marriage Association..said abused men were labelled ‘un-manlike’. †5. Excessively lewd or licentious; sexually perverted. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [adjective] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable unmanlike1636 spintrian1656 paraphiliac1935 paraphilic1952 kinky1959 pervo1970 pervy1970 1636 P. Heylyn Hist. Sabbath ii. iv. 105 Those, who left the Church and publicke service of the Lord, to goe to those impure delights, and unmanlike spectacles. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iv. 26 Having got Possession of a Man who was committed for certain odious unmanlike Practices, not fit to be named. B. adv. In an unmanly manner; unmanfully; (also) in a manner untypical of a human being (as opposed to an animal). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adverb] > unmanlike unmanlike1602 1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxxvi. f. 241 Not leauing her owne wearing garments behinde him..to couer nakednes, but (vnmanlike) thus left there lying on the bare ground. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B4^v Their God-like Issue thriue, Whilst I vn-man-like must desttoy [sic] my babes. 1690 ‘N. N. Philanthropos’ Let. Gentleman Treat. Two Hundred Queries 53 Unmannerly and unmanlike traduced with those vile Names of Papist, Jesuit, Atheist, and what not. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Fippil, to whimper or sob, to utter a plaintive sound, to behave unmanlike. 1881 D. C. Murray Joseph's Coat xxvii [He] snuffled unmanlike through his tears. 1975 Field & Stream Oct. 90/1 I've walked up on countless grouse moving unmanlike. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.1579
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