kittenish
kittenish adjective: having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.
Adjective
kittenish (comparative more kittenish, superlative most kittenish)
- Having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.
- She was kittenish in her manners, wearing generally an air of soft and fluffy innocence.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 48
- Sleeping, Myra appeared cuddly, kittenish. Girls, Gordon thought to himself. Girls can really drive you crazy.2011, Jeff Dee, Gordon Ryder's Blues, page 165
- Synonyms:
- kitteny
- Playful, sometimes with overtones of female sexuality.
kittenish meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
kittenish in Urdu
- چلبلی, معصوم کھلنڈری, شوخ
kittenish in Malayalam
- light-hearted, playful, skittish
- കുസൃതികാട്ടുന്ന, ക്രീഡാതാല്പര്യമുള്ള, ആഹ്ലാദിച്ചു തുള്ളുന്ന, കളിയായിട്ടുള്ള, കേളിപര, കേളീപര
Synonyms of kittenish
Forms of kittenish
| comparative | more kittenish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most kittenish |
Origin of kittenish
From kitten + -ish.
Words formed from kittenish
Questions about kittenish
- What does kittenish mean?
- Kittenish means having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.
- What is kittenish in Urdu?
- Kittenish in Urdu is چلبلی, معصوم کھلنڈری, شوخ. See Kittenish meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is kittenish?
- Kittenish is an adjective.
Words near kittenish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: kittenish (page history and authors); kittenish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kittenish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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