Thesaurus: ladylike

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1. a. Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
2. a. Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.
3. a. Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
4. adj. befitting a woman of good breeding
5. 1. Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne. 2. Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." Warner. 3. Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. Dryden.
6. j:100 s. befitting a woman of good breeding