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adjectivelike

adjectivelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an adjective.

Adjective

adjectivelike (comparative more adjectivelike, superlative most adjectivelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an adjective.
    • A number of both lexemes and word forms seem to be located within the two endpoints of this scale, and can thus be identified only as “more nounlike, less adjectivelike” or “less nounlike, more adjectivelike”.2022 June 16, Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári, “Between adjective and noun”, in Acta Linguistica Academica, volume 69, number 2, →DOI, pages 188-205

Forms of adjectivelike

comparativemore adjectivelike
superlativemost adjectivelike

Origin of adjectivelike

From adjective + -like.

Questions about adjectivelike

What does adjectivelike mean?
Adjectivelike means resembling or characteristic of an adjective.
What part of speech is adjectivelike?
Adjectivelike is an adjective.

Words near adjectivelike in the dictionary

  1. adjective verb
  2. adjective verbs
  3. adjectived
  4. adjectivehood
  5. adjectiveless
  6. adjectivelike
  7. adjectively
  8. adjectives
  9. adjectiving
  10. adjectivisation
  11. adjectivisations

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