Adjective: ladylike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ladylike |
| Superlative | most ladylike |
Sample Sentences
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Coniux imperioſa. Ouidius. A ladylike wife that will be obeyed. […] Dura domina, imperioſa. Cic. A rigorous and ladilike dame that will be obeyed. [1565, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, […], London:]
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Is it ladylike to giggle? / Is it ladylike to wink? / Is it ladylike to ride a horse astraddle? / Is it ladylike to wiggle? / Is it ladylike to drink? / Is it ladylike upon the beach to paddle? […] [1906 November 29, W. D. Nesbit, “The Querist”, in Life, volume 48, number 1257, page 673:]
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Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy, acquisitive teeth. [1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 165:]
Adjectives inflected like ladylike
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From lady + -like.
Verbs referencing "ladylike"
German Adjectives
ladylike.