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单词 womanly
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Definition of womanly in English:

womanly

adjective ˈwʊmənliˈwʊmənli
  • 1Relating to or having the characteristics of a woman or women.

    her smooth, womanly skin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The kitten heel offers both feminine grace and womanly comfort, as do ballet flats.
    • But, again, I'll leave the matter of Maryland's manly deeds and womanly words - fatti maschii, parole femine - to the mercy of others.
    • In reference to women, however, and particularly in this scene, the moon also symbolises womanly beauty and is associated with the female principle yin.
    • He was less concerned with womanly beauty than with the moral beauty of womanhood in its embodiment as faithful lover, wife and mother.
    • This game of guile has the womanly characteristic of dangerous beauty.
    • The literal translation is Manly deeds, womanly words or Deeds are male, words are female.
    • Proving that being a feminist doesn't mean neglecting the womanly arts, the banner behind us was one I made earlier.
    • Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
    • They don't have that inner womanly beauty that used to come from the softness and dignity that used to make woman so attractive.
    • As women entered the retail workforce, authorities identified ideal characteristics of the new retail system as womanly.
    • While male kings did so by emulating such male gendered qualities as martial skills and leadership ability, female kings had to emulate womanly qualities.
    • Everyone in her family smoked, and to young Marcheela it was elegant and womanly to sit, her legs crossed, with that thin white cylinder between her fingers, blowing rings of smoke.
    • But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
    • Nobody - I mean nobody - should play witness to my usually repressed womanly scream at that hour of the day, most especially half-awake commuters.
    • This is the starting point for a barrowload of stereotypes about feminine sensitivity and womanly feeling to be wheeled out into the courtroom, and indeed the media.
    • As an example of womanly evil, she is criticised; the female sexuality that causes these perceptions remains the foundation for both her good and her evil.
    • ‘The doctor asked me if I wanted a pill that would still let me have ‘periods’, and I said I would - somehow it kept me feeling womanly,’ she says.
    • Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors.
    • It all made me start thinking about my days in Home Economics class with Mrs. B. To say that I was an unlikely candidate to excel in the womanly arts epitomizes the concept of understatement.
    • Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
    Synonyms
    feminine, female
    archaic feminal
    1. 1.1 (of a girl's or woman's body) fully developed and curvaceous.
      I've got a womanly figure
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have seen these things before and recognize a couple features - the simple, childlike head (pigtailed here) atop a womanly body.
      • Not very PC, I know, but if you'd spent your whole life wishing you had womanly curves up top as opposed to just down below, you'd understand.
      • School uniforms tend to hide all those womanly curves!
      • She certainly had grown a lot, her body had grown womanly curves, and she was no longer childlike in appearance, but that of a sophisticated and strikingly beautiful young woman.
      • But I must admit there are times that I wished I looked a bit more womanly than teenageish.
      • But there was one - an older girl with womanly hips and breasts, and lips as full as Alice's.
      • Curvaceous, decidedly feminine and womanly I would say, rather than waifish and childlike.
      • Only when I became a mother did I come to appreciate my womanly body.
      • Although she is prone to gain weight over her lifetime, at this point she doesn't have a ‘pot belly’ or ‘love handles,’ just nice womanly curves!
      • And we were as delighted as she was when she stretched that t shirt over her womanly form and paraded round in front of the camera for us…
      • Mother is ripe, full-breasted, at the peak of her womanly powers.
      • She was small, without much of a womanly body, and only looked to be her age.
      • You realise that you have a body shape emerging - womanly curves and things - and that clothes fit nicely around them.
      • A skimpy black dress hugs her shapely womanly figure with matching ankle-high black boots.
      • She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
      • Plus she had the most fantastic body: curvaceous, womanly, and with wonderful glorious breasts that I found mesmerizing.
      • Lately I had noticed that my figure was developing more into a womanly figure.
      • It felt great on her body, fit the womanly curves perfectly.
      • But the woman is more than normally apprehensive… her daughter has a brain injury that has left her unusually childlike, even in her mature young womanly body.
      • There came a feminine voice was feminine, soft and womanly.
      Synonyms
      voluptuous, curvaceous, shapely, ample, opulent, full-figured, well formed, well proportioned, Junoesque, Rubensesque, buxom, full-bosomed, lush, luscious
      informal curvy, busty

Derivatives

  • womanliness

  • noun ˈwʊmənlɪnəsˈwʊmənlinəs
    • The slightly whiney girlishness that sometimes surfaced unintentionally has been replaced by a confident womanliness, and for the first time you are aware of her extraordinary sexual power.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Feminine side: not to be confused with womanliness, which is not a side but pervades the whole and also does not need to be explored, on account of it just being.
      • There's a bit of Oedipal stuff too but it's not like I'm buying my mother lingerie for Christmas - it's about the beautiful womanliness of things.
      • Add a funny, finally devastating smile, the sensuous Portuguese language, and what can only be called the ease of Case's full-bodied womanliness, and you've got more than enough love to go around.
      • Woolf identified in her an essential womanliness which activated the ardent and romantic side of his personality, hitherto almost entirely dormant.
 
 

Definition of womanly in US English:

womanly

adjectiveˈwo͝omənlēˈwʊmənli
  • 1Relating to or having the characteristics of a woman or women.

    her smooth, womanly skin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In reference to women, however, and particularly in this scene, the moon also symbolises womanly beauty and is associated with the female principle yin.
    • Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
    • He was less concerned with womanly beauty than with the moral beauty of womanhood in its embodiment as faithful lover, wife and mother.
    • Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
    • This game of guile has the womanly characteristic of dangerous beauty.
    • It all made me start thinking about my days in Home Economics class with Mrs. B. To say that I was an unlikely candidate to excel in the womanly arts epitomizes the concept of understatement.
    • As women entered the retail workforce, authorities identified ideal characteristics of the new retail system as womanly.
    • Nobody - I mean nobody - should play witness to my usually repressed womanly scream at that hour of the day, most especially half-awake commuters.
    • While male kings did so by emulating such male gendered qualities as martial skills and leadership ability, female kings had to emulate womanly qualities.
    • The literal translation is Manly deeds, womanly words or Deeds are male, words are female.
    • As an example of womanly evil, she is criticised; the female sexuality that causes these perceptions remains the foundation for both her good and her evil.
    • But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
    • Everyone in her family smoked, and to young Marcheela it was elegant and womanly to sit, her legs crossed, with that thin white cylinder between her fingers, blowing rings of smoke.
    • But, again, I'll leave the matter of Maryland's manly deeds and womanly words - fatti maschii, parole femine - to the mercy of others.
    • Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors.
    • The kitten heel offers both feminine grace and womanly comfort, as do ballet flats.
    • This is the starting point for a barrowload of stereotypes about feminine sensitivity and womanly feeling to be wheeled out into the courtroom, and indeed the media.
    • Proving that being a feminist doesn't mean neglecting the womanly arts, the banner behind us was one I made earlier.
    • They don't have that inner womanly beauty that used to come from the softness and dignity that used to make woman so attractive.
    • ‘The doctor asked me if I wanted a pill that would still let me have ‘periods’, and I said I would - somehow it kept me feeling womanly,’ she says.
    Synonyms
    feminine, female
    1. 1.1 (of a girl's or woman's body) fully developed and curvaceous.
      I've got a womanly figure
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the woman is more than normally apprehensive… her daughter has a brain injury that has left her unusually childlike, even in her mature young womanly body.
      • Mother is ripe, full-breasted, at the peak of her womanly powers.
      • School uniforms tend to hide all those womanly curves!
      • She certainly had grown a lot, her body had grown womanly curves, and she was no longer childlike in appearance, but that of a sophisticated and strikingly beautiful young woman.
      • Although she is prone to gain weight over her lifetime, at this point she doesn't have a ‘pot belly’ or ‘love handles,’ just nice womanly curves!
      • She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
      • A skimpy black dress hugs her shapely womanly figure with matching ankle-high black boots.
      • She was small, without much of a womanly body, and only looked to be her age.
      • It felt great on her body, fit the womanly curves perfectly.
      • Lately I had noticed that my figure was developing more into a womanly figure.
      • Curvaceous, decidedly feminine and womanly I would say, rather than waifish and childlike.
      • Not very PC, I know, but if you'd spent your whole life wishing you had womanly curves up top as opposed to just down below, you'd understand.
      • I have seen these things before and recognize a couple features - the simple, childlike head (pigtailed here) atop a womanly body.
      • But there was one - an older girl with womanly hips and breasts, and lips as full as Alice's.
      • Plus she had the most fantastic body: curvaceous, womanly, and with wonderful glorious breasts that I found mesmerizing.
      • There came a feminine voice was feminine, soft and womanly.
      • You realise that you have a body shape emerging - womanly curves and things - and that clothes fit nicely around them.
      • And we were as delighted as she was when she stretched that t shirt over her womanly form and paraded round in front of the camera for us…
      • Only when I became a mother did I come to appreciate my womanly body.
      • But I must admit there are times that I wished I looked a bit more womanly than teenageish.
      Synonyms
      voluptuous, curvaceous, shapely, ample, opulent, full-figured, well formed, well proportioned, junoesque, rubensesque, buxom, full-bosomed, lush, luscious
 
 
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