Word Meanings - MAIDENLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a maiden; modest; coy.

Related words: (words related to MAIDENLIKE)

• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• MAIDENLINESS
  The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
• MAIDEN
  fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• MAIDENSHIP
  Maidenhood. Fuller.
• MAIDENHOOD
  1. The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. Shak. 2. Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state. The maidenhood Of thy fight. Shak.
• MAIDENHAIR
  A fern of the genus Adiantum , having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. Maiden grass, the smaller
• MAIDENLIKE
  Like a maiden; modest; coy.
• MAIDENLY
  Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. Must you be blushing . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Shak.
• MODEST
  1. Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man. 2. Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly
• MAIDENHEAD
  1. The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity. Shak. 2. The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity. The maidenhead of their credit. Sir H. Wotton. 3. The hymen, or virginal membrane.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• IMMODESTLY
  In an immodest manner.
• UNMAIDEN
  To ravish; to deflower.
• IMMODESTY
  Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.
• IMMODEST
  1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate. 2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder
• OVERMODEST
  Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.