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femalelike

femalelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a female.

Adjective

femalelike (comparative more femalelike, superlative most femalelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a female.
    • But the main question was whether the two subgroups of men with femalelike behavioral tendencies made much use of the concept of cooperation...1976, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Ethos

Forms of femalelike

comparativemore femalelike
superlativemost femalelike

Origin of femalelike

From female + -like.

Questions about femalelike

What does femalelike mean?
Femalelike means resembling or characteristic of a female.
What part of speech is femalelike?
Femalelike is an adjective.

Words near femalelike in the dictionary

  1. femalehood
  2. femaleist
  3. femaleists
  4. femaleless
  5. femalelessness
  6. femalelike
  7. femalely
  8. femaleness
  9. femalenesses
  10. femaler
  11. females

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