Synonyms for girlish


Grammar : Adj
Spell : gur-lish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɜr lɪʃ


Définition of girlish

Origin :
  • 1560s, from girl + -ish. Related: Girlishly; girlishness.
  • adj juvenile
Example sentences :
  • The fairy godmother romance of it fascinated her girlish mind.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • How often, in her girlish reveries, had she thought of that incident, that stranger!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But with girlish wilfulness she had clung to it the more positively.
  • Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen
  • This morning indeed he found her all girlish gentleness and appeal.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Clara was even more beautiful than her girlish loveliness had promised.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • "I remember it," she answered, a girlish blush rising to her face.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • Over his eyes in a girlish caprice, and crying, “Who is it?”
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • All at once he was conscious of a perfume he knew, and of a girlish figure facing him.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • There was an interval of silence, and then the girlish voice called again.
  • Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan
  • He heard again the girlish laughter and concluded she could not be over sixteen.
  • Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan

Antonyms for girlish

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