unsexlike

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adjective

Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).

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Meanings

adjectiveunsexlike (comparative more unsexlike, superlative most unsexlike)

comparative more unsexlike · superlative most unsexlike

  1. archaicNot befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).

    […] 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
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    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

Origin

From un- + sex + -like.

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APA

unsexlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsexlike

MLA

“unsexlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsexlike. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsexlike,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsexlike.

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