Ladylike

Definition: Ladylike

Ladylike

Adjective

1. Befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners".

Date "ladylike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fashion	Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous).
Woman	Adjective: female, she-; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic, gynaecic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ladylike

English words defined with "ladylike": Ladied, Ladify ♦ Nymphish. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ladylike": Very much of. (references)

Etymologies containing "ladylike": Ladied. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ladylike" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (ladylike).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Hey! that isn't very ladylike (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)
Tongue Twisters	Lonely lowland llamas are ladylike. (references; author: unknown)
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Domain	Title
Books	Isn't She Ladylike (reference) Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to Be Ladylike (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Ladylike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ladylike" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	53	46,657

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "ladylike": un-ladylike.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "ladylike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		për zonja, i shquar (conspicuous, dignified, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, inspected, laureate, notable, noted, noteworthy, outstanding, pre eminent, prize, remarkable), i edukuar (educated, fair-spoken, highbred, mannerly, polite, thoroughbred, trained, well bred, well educated, well-conducted), dinjitoz (high-toned). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهزب, ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian		с вид на дама, с обноски на дама, женствен (effeminate, emasculate, girlish, pansy, sissy, soft, womanish), подобаващ на дама, изнежен (sybaritic), изискана. (various references)

Chinese		如贵妇. (various references)

Czech		chovající se jako dáma (lady-like). (various references)

Dutch		keurig (decent, fitting, gentlemanlike, jaunty, pretty, proper, suitable). (various references)

Esperanto		ĝentlemanineca, ĝentilhomeca (gentlemanlike). (various references)

Farsi		زن صفت (Effeminate, Woman, Womanish), بانووار, باوقار (Courtly, Grand, Stately, Superb). (various references)

French		distingué, bien élevé, élégant. (various references)

German		damenhaft. (various references)

Greek		ευγενήσ (civil, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gentle, gentlemanly, gracious, kindly, nobble, nobleman, patrician, polite, soulful, thoroughbred, urbane, well mannered). (various references)

Hebrew		ל� �"ו�' כ�'ברת. (various references)

Hungarian		nõies (feminine, girlish, womanly), finom (cheesy, choice, classy, crackerjack, dainty, delicate, delicious, discerning, elegant, filigree, fine, genteel, light, mellow, nice, pure, refined, screening, sedate, silky, snappy, subtle, tasty, tenuous), elõkelõ hölgyhöz illõ. (various references)

Italian		da signora. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		女らしい (feminine, womanly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"ならしい (feminine, womanly). (various references)

Manx		bwoirrin (effeminate, female, feminine, femininistic, petticoat), benoil (effeminate, wifely, womanish, womanlike, womanly). (various references)

Pig Latin		adylikelay.(various references)

Portuguese		refinado (bijou, chic, cultivated, hulled, precious, refined, wiredrawn), galanteador (coquet, dangler, do-naught, good for nothing, Kittle, laggard, mask, philanderer, wooer), elegante (attic, beau, brave, braw, cheesy, chic, dainty, Dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, elegant, fashionable, feather, fete, flotage, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, light, natty, neat, nifty, Nobby, paste, polished glass, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, Spruce, stylish, tasteful, tasty, Tony, trig, trim). (various references)

Romanian		de lady, binecrescutã. (various references)

Russian		элегантная, изысканная, изнеженный (effeminate, emasculate, girlish, sissified, sybaritic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji dolikuje gospođi, ženskast. (various references)

Spanish		afeminado (camp, effeminate, pantywaist, sissy, unmanly, womanish). (various references)

Swedish		fin (aristocratic, bully, choice, clean, dainty, delicate, delicious, dignified, discriminating, elegant, excellent, fine, finespun, first rate, gentee, genteel, grand, handsome, high pitched, keen, nice, polished, refined, select, sensitive, slender, smart, soft, superior, swell, tactful, tender, tenuous, thin), förnäm (dignified, distinguished, exclusive, fashionable, high, lordly, noble). (various references)

Thai		เหมาะกับสุ� าพสตรี. (various references)

Turkish		kadınsı (effeminate, feminine, unmanly, womanish, womanlike), hanımlara lâyık, hanımefendice (gentlewomanlike, gentlewomanly), hanım hanım (gentlewomanlike, gentlewomanly). (various references)

Ukranian		що ма�" вигляд і манери леді, властивий леді, зніжений (effeminate, effete, girlish, sardanapalian). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "ladylike": unladylike. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ladylike" (pronounced lā"dēlī'k)
4	-ē l ī' k	berrylike.
3	-l ī' k	apelike, beaklike, businesslike, catlike, childlike, computerlike, doglike, dreamlike, eellike, eyelike, fanlike, fernlike, ghostlike, grasslike, homelike, hornlike, knifelike, leaflike, lifelike, lookalike, moonlike, mosslike, needlelike, netlike, pincerlike, plantlike, platelike, saltlike, sharklike, snakelike, starlike, statesmanlike, stemlike, swordlike, tomblike, toothlike, unsportsmanlike, warlike, winglike, workmanlike, wormlike.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-k-l-l-y"
	-1 letter: ideally, leakily.
	-2 letters: allied, killed, likely.
	-3 letters: ailed, alike, alkyd, alkyl, alley, daily, dally, delay, delly, dikey, dilly, ideal, idyll, ileal, kelly, ladle, laked, layed, leady, leaky, liked, yield.
	-4 letters: aide, alky, ally, dale, deal, deil, deli, dell, dial, diel, dike, dill, dyke, idea, idle, idly, idyl, ilea, ilka, illy, kadi, kail, kale, kill, lade, lady, laid, lake, laky, lead, leak, leal, lied, like, lily, yald, yeld, yelk, yell, yill.
	-5 letters: aid, ail, ale, all, aye, dak, dal, day, del, dey, die, dye, eld, elk, ell, ilk, ill, kae, kay, kea, key, kid, lad, lay, lea, led, lei, lek, ley, lid, lie, lye, yak, yea, yid.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-k-l-l-y"
	+2 letters: unladylike.
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