La"dy*like` (?), a.
1.
Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days.
Hawthorne.
2.
Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.
"With fingers
ladylike."
Warner.
3.
Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear.
Dryden.
© Webster 1913.