ladylike

1. 1.

   befitting a woman of good breeding

   “ladylike manners”

   Similarrefined

Questions about ladylike

What does ladylike mean?

ladylike means "befitting a woman of good breeding".

How many syllables are in ladylike?

ladylike has 3 syllables: la-dy-like. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪdiˌlaɪk/.

Is ladylike a common word?

ladylike is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ladylike?

28 words rhyme with ladylike. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.