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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. befitting or characteristic of a maiden;
- Example: "a maidenly blush"
[syn: maidenlike, maidenly]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, a. Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. [1913 Webster] Must you be blushing ? . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, adv. In a maidenlike manner. "Maidenly demure." --Skelton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

maidenly adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush" [syn: maidenlike, maidenly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "maidenly": Platonic, abstinent, bachelorlike, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, callow, celibate, childish, childlike, coltish, continent, dewy, distaff, ever-new, evergreen, female, feminine, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gentlewomanlike, girlish, girllike, green, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, husbandless, immature, intact, kiddish, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maiden, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neoteric, nestling, new, old-maidish, original, petticoat, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, raw, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfledged, unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, virginal, womanish, womanlike, womanly, young