Unmanly

Definition: Unmanly

Unmanly

Adjective

1. Not possessing qualities befitting a man.

2. Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.

Adverb

1. Without qualities thought to befit a man.

Date "unmanly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Unmanly

Synonyms: poor-spirited (adj), pusillanimous (adj), unmanful (adj), unmanlike (adj), unmanfully (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: manly (adj), manfully (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improbity	Undignified, indign; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious.
Woman	Adjective: female, she-; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic, gynaecic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unmanly

English words defined with "unmanly": domesticated ♦ Invirile ♦ Manless. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unmanly": Save the Mark. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Unmanly Man: Concepts of Sexual Defamation in Early Northern Society (The Viking Collection, Studies in Northern Civilization , Vol 1) (reference) Unmanly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine De Stael's Subversive Women (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	It is dishonourable and unmanly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unmanly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unmanly" is used about 19 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%	19	80,337

Language		Translations for "unmanly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zhburrëruar (effeminate, unmanned). (various references)

Arabic		‏جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, weak-kneed). (various references)

Bulgarian		немъжествен, недостоен за мъж, мекушав (effeminate, sappy, womanish). (various references)

Czech		zženštilý (effeminate, womanish), neodhodlaný (unresolved), nemužný. (various references)

Finnish		epämiehekäs, akkamainen (womanish). (various references)

French		lâche. (various references)

German		unmännlich. (various references)

Greek		άνανδροσ (coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, poltroon, recreant). (various references)

Hebrew		פח�"� י (cowardly, fearful, timorous). (various references)

Hungarian		férfiatlan, bátortalan (diffident, dispirited, faint, faint-hearted, fearsome, half hearted, half-hearted, low-spirited, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, timid, timorous). (various references)

Indonesian		tak jantan, pengecut (abject, coward, dastard, faint, faint-hearted, poltroon, sneak, white-livered). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�泣き (unmanly weeping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おと�"なき (unmanly weeping). (various references)

Pig Latin		anlyunmay

Romanian		slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, thin, weak, weakling, weedy), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, hen-hearted, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, poltroon, recreant, sneak, sneaky, white livered, yellow), efeminat (emasculate, girly-girly, mollycoddle, womanish). (various references)

Russian		недостойный мужчины. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nemuževan, nečovečan (brutal, inhuman, wanton). (various references)

Spanish		poca hombría, afeminado (camp, effeminate, ladylike, pantywaist, sissy, womanish). (various references)

Swedish		omanlig (effeminate, sissified). (various references)

Turkish		zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), kadınsı (effeminate, feminine, ladylike, womanish, womanlike), kadınca (womanlike, womanly), erkeğe yakışmaz. (various references)

Ukrainian		слабий (asthenic, asthenical, dicky, dilute, dim, weak), немужній, не гідний чоловіка. (various references)

Vietnamese		yếu đuối (impotent, infirm, marrowless, molly-coddle, puny, spiritless, weak), nhu nhược tầm thường, không xứng đáng l� kẻ nam nhi; không dũng mãnh, không xứng đáng l� đ� n ông, không hùng dũng, hèn yếu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-m-n-n-u-y"
	-2 letters: annul, manly, unlay, unman, yamun, yulan.
	-3 letters: alum, amyl, luna, luny, many, maul, maun, myna, ulan, ulna, yuan.
	-4 letters: amu, any, lam, lay, lum, man, may, mun, nam, nan, nay, nun, yam, yum.
	-5 letters: al, am, an, ay, la, ma, mu, my, na, nu, um, un, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-m-n-n-u-y"
	+2 letters: inhumanly, mundanely, unwomanly.
	+3 letters: inhumanely, laundryman, laundrymen, ruminantly, unmannerly.
	+4 letters: anonymously, innumerably, unanimously.
	+5 letters: inconsumably, meaningfully, monumentally, semiannually, underlayment, unflamboyant, unhandsomely, unimaginably, unmanageably, unmanneredly, unmyelinated.
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