Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Adjective: unmanly  ,ún'man-lee
  1. Not possessing qualities befitting a man
    - unmanful, unmanlike
     
  2. Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
    "He despised himself for entertaining such unmanly considerations";
    - pusillanimous, poor-spirited
Adverb: unmanly  ,ún'man-lee
  1. Without qualities thought to befit a man
    - unmanfully

See also: camp [informal], campy [informal], cissy [Brit, informal], cowardly, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, fearful, sissified [informal], sissy [informal], sissyish [informal], womanish

Antonym: manful