Usually means: Not conforming to traditional masculinity.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word unmanly:

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  1. unmanly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unmanly: Merriam-Webster
  3. unmanly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unmanly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unmanly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unmanly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unmanly, unmanly: Wordnik
  8. unmanly: Wiktionary
  9. unmanly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unmanly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unmanly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unmanly: Dictionary.com
  13. unmanly: Rhymezone
  14. unmanly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. unmanly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. unmanly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. unmanly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unmanly: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unmanly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See unmanlier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to something not human.
adjective:  (of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.
adjective:  (of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable from a man.
adjective:  (of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man.
adverb:  In a manner that is unmanly.

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