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unladilike

unladilike is the rare spelling of unladylike.

Meaning of unladylike

Adjective

unladylike (comparative more unladylike, superlative most unladylike)

  1. Not ladylike; ill-mannered.
    • Women enjoy being pursued, but men still don’t! They don’t want anything that seems too easy to win. If the woman takes the initiative—at least if she takes it conspicuously—the world will think her aggressive, and unladylike.1946, Clifford Rose Adams, Vance O. Packard, How to Pick a Mate

Forms of unladilike

comparativemore unladilike
superlativemost unladilike

Origin of unladilike

From un- + ladilike.

Questions about unladilike

What is unladilike the rare spelling of?
Unladilike is the rare spelling of unladylike.

Words near unladilike in the dictionary

  1. unladdered
  2. unlade
  3. unladed
  4. unladen
  5. unlades
  6. unladilike
  7. unlading
  8. unladings
  9. unlady-like
  10. unladylike
  11. unladylike-ly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unladilike (page history and authors); unladylike (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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