What does girlish mean?
Girlish means Like (that of) a girl; feminine..
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/ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/ · adjective
Like (that of) a girl; feminine..
She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!
April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!
1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .
Use girlish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Girlish means Like (that of) a girl; feminine..
Common synonyms include immature, young, schoolgirlish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
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