ladylike

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: la=dy=like

CIDE DICTIONARY

ladylike, a. 

•  Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.  [1913 Webster]

  "She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days."  [1913 Webster]
•  Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.  Warner.  [1913 Webster]
•  Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.  [1913 Webster]

  "Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ladylike, adj.
1 a with the modesty, manners, etc., of a lady. b befitting a lady.
2 (of a man) effeminate.

THESAURUS

ladylike

aristocratic, chivalrous, correct, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, decorous, dignified, distaff, ducal, elegant, exalted, female, feminine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gracious, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, high, highbred, kinglike, kingly, kittenish, knightly, little-girlish, maidenly, mannerly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, noble, of gentle blood, of rank, patrician, petticoat, polished, polite, princelike, princely, proper, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, refined, respectable, titled, well-bred, well-brought-up, womanish, womanlike, womanly

ROGET THESAURUS

ladylike

Fashion

N fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society, good society, polite society, monde, drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court, world, fashionable world, gay world, Vanity Fair, show, manners, breeding, air, demeanor, savoir faire, gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_eance, conventions of society, Mrs, Grundy, punctilio, form, formality, etiquette, point of etiquette, dress, custom, mode, vogue, go, rage, prevailing taste, fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word, man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world, height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion, arbiter elegantiarum, the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand, elite, smart set, the four hundred, in crowd, fashionable, in fashion, a la mode, comme il faut, admitted in society, admissible in society, presentable, conventional, genteel, well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike, civil, polite, polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly, distingue, unembarrassed, degage, janty, jaunty, dashing, fast, modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche, newfangled, all the rage, all the go, with it, in, faddish, in court, in full dress, in evening dress, en grande tenue, fashionably, for fashion's sake, a la francaise, a la parisienne, a l' anglaise, a l' americaine, autre temps autre mauers, chaque pays a sa guise.

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.