maidenly at English => English (Longman) Of Explained:
adj literary old-fashioned used to describe the behaviour of a girl or young woman who is shy about showing her body, talking about sex etc, especially in the past// --maidenly modesty//
maidenly at English => English (Moby Thesaurus II) Of Explained:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "maidenly":
Platonic, abstinent, bachelorlike, beardless, boyish, boylike,
calflike, callow, celibate, childish, childlike, coltish,
continent, dewy, distaff, ever-new, evergreen, female, feminine,
firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gentlewomanlike, girlish, girllike,
green, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, husbandless, immature, intact,
kiddish, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maiden, matronal,
matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neoteric, nestling, new,
old-maidish, original, petticoat, pristine, puerile, puplike,
puppyish, puppylike, raw, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish,
spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, unbeaten, undeveloped,
unfledged, unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden,
unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, virginal,
womanish, womanlike, womanly, young
maidenly at English => English (English Thesaurus) Of Explained:
[ADJ] (Woman): female, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly.
Maidenly at English => English (Websters 1913) Of Explained:
Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, a.
Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest,
reserved.
Must you be blushing ? . . . What a maidenly
man-at-arms are you become ! --Shak.
Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, adv.
In a maidenlike manner. ``Maidenly demure.'' --Skelton.
maidenly at English => English (WordNet) Of Explained:
maidenly
adj : befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush"
[syn: {maidenlike}]
maidenly at English (WD) Of Explained:
==English==
Etymology
Inter: suffix » maiden|lyAdjective
Inter: en-ad » jRelated terms
* maidenlinessAnagrams
* medianlyTranslation: kn » maidenly
Translation: te » maidenly
Translation: vi » maidenly
Translation: zh » maidenly