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abattoirlike

abattoirlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an abattoir.

Adjective

abattoirlike (comparative more abattoirlike, superlative most abattoirlike)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of an abattoir.
    • His “Macbeth,” which was such a hit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that it recently transferred to Broadway, is set in a vaguely Stalinist era and staged in a tiled abattoirlike space that was partly inspired by the horror movie “Saw.”2008 April 14, Charles Mcgrath, “Dramatic Power Couple: Theater Is Their Castle”, in New York Times

Forms of abattoirlike

comparativemore abattoirlike
superlativemost abattoirlike

Origin of abattoirlike

From abattoir + -like.

Questions about abattoirlike

What does abattoirlike mean?
Abattoirlike means resembling or characteristic of an abattoir.
What part of speech is abattoirlike?
Abattoirlike is an adjective.

Words near abattoirlike in the dictionary

  1. abattis
  2. abattised
  3. abattises
  4. abattle
  5. abattoir
  6. abattoirlike
  7. abattoirs
  8. abature
  9. abatures
  10. abatvoix
  11. abatvoixes

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