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girlfriendly

girlfriendly adjective: in the manner of a girlfriend.

Adjective

girlfriendly (comparative more girlfriendly, superlative most girlfriendly)

  1. In the manner of a girlfriend.
    • I'd guessed right about my sister, for, glowing with girlfriendly pride, she began to tell Julie about Jack...2004, Melanie Jackson, The Mask on the Cruise Ship, page 22
    • It’s called ... or rather, it’s about ... see, it describes ... well, let’s just say it’s about a girlfriend who suspects her boyfriend of infidelity, and who proposes to conduct an investigation before committing herself to any girlfriendly activity.2008 January 6, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Anticipated, the Indie and the Overlooked”, in New York Times

Forms of girlfriendly

comparativemore girlfriendly
superlativemost girlfriendly

Origin of girlfriendly

From girlfriend + -ly.

Questions about girlfriendly

What does girlfriendly mean?
Girlfriendly means in the manner of a girlfriend.
What part of speech is girlfriendly?
Girlfriendly is an adjective.

Words near girlfriendly in the dictionary

  1. girlfriendhood
  2. girlfriending
  3. girlfriendish
  4. girlfriendless
  5. girlfriendlessness
  6. girlfriendly
  7. girlfriendo
  8. girlfriendos
  9. girlfriends
  10. girlfriendy
  11. girlfs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: girlfriendly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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