tomboyish

adjective

Definition of tomboyishnext
as in masculine
having qualities or traits that are traditionally considered inappropriate for a girl or woman her father thought that ice hockey was a little too tomboyish for her, but her mother and older brother encouraged her to take it up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomboyish
  1. masculine
  2. unladylike
  3. unfeminine
Adjective
  • Stephen is pure toxic masculine evil in baggy jeans, carrying on a secret relationship with a wide-eyed Lucy over the show’s first season — only to dump her at its end and frame her as a lovesick stalker.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Similarly, muted color schemes and uniform aesthetics reflect traditionally heterosexual, masculine Western design standards.
    Corinne Post, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of masculine
Adjective
  • The new girl’s unladylike bravado ensures that she will be asked to board with the Brown girl.
    Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, one of the choicest bites of the entire meal was an unladylike gnaw of the generous gristle on a bone followed by a spoonful of marrow-thickened soup, bobbing with cubes of cleansing daikon.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
Definition of unladylike
Adjective
  • The intention behind this final postcard may have been, yet again, to paint the fight for suffrage as absurd, to make suffragists seem like willful, unfeminine animals.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • This really helped cement this idea that there was something or there could be something unfeminine about successful athletes.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
Definition of unfeminine
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