Contrasting っぽい、らしい、みたい?

Question

For example, the following 3: 女っぽい (おんなっぽい) 女らしい (おんならしい) 女みたい (おんなみたい) In what situations would you use っぽい over らしい？ Does っぽい have negative connotations? Are 女らしい and 女みたい interchangeable as in 彼女は本当に女らしい／彼女は本当に女みたい? I would love if someone could contrast these 3 terms.

Answer 1

女っぽい means vey feminine, sexy and probably often used to express sexiness of a woman as a compliment.

女らしい is used to describe a woman when she is displaying very feminine charactrustics and mannerisms.

Above dptwo are interchangeable, although they have slightly different connections.

彼女は本当に女みたい - This is a bit off sentence without the context. 彼女は本当に女らしい is okay, but not 彼女は本当に女みたい.

女みたい means “ like woman” so you may say 彼は女みたい。(He looks like a woman.) or 彼女は男みたい。