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unsexlike

unsexlike adjective: not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).

Adjective

unsexlike (comparative more unsexlike, superlative most unsexlike)

  1. (archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
    • Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies.1822, The Saturday Magazine, volume 2, page 370
    • […] the bigotry of Mary, and the unsexlike despotism of her sister Tudor […]1841, Mary Anne M'Mullan, Lines from the Land of Streams, page 14

Forms of unsexlike

comparativemore unsexlike
superlativemost unsexlike

Origin of unsexlike

From un- + sex + -like.

Questions about unsexlike

What does unsexlike mean?
Unsexlike means not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
What part of speech is unsexlike?
Unsexlike is an adjective.

Words near unsexlike in the dictionary

  1. unsexiest
  2. unsexily
  3. unsexiness
  4. unsexing
  5. unsexist
  6. unsexlike
  7. unsexual
  8. unsexualised
  9. unsexuality
  10. unsexualize
  11. unsexualized

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