maidenly

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: maid=en=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

maidenly, a. 

 Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.  [1913 Webster]
"Must you be blushing ? . . .
What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become !"  [1913 Webster]

maidenly, adv. 

 In a maidenlike manner.  Skelton.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

maidenly

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.