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alienlike

alienlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an alien.

Adjective

alienlike (comparative more alienlike, superlative most alienlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an alien.
    • On the screen there was this creepy image: a giant head, mouth agape, with clawing hands reaching out of it, alienlike, toward the figure of a girl.2009 July 14, Melena Ryzik, “Curtain Down, Light the Lights!”, in New York Times

Forms of alienlike

comparativemore alienlike
superlativemost alienlike

Origin of alienlike

From alien + -like.

Questions about alienlike

What does alienlike mean?
Alienlike means resembling or characteristic of an alien.
What part of speech is alienlike?
Alienlike is an adjective.

Words near alienlike in the dictionary

  1. alienize
  2. alienized
  3. alienizes
  4. alienizing
  5. alienkind
  6. alienlike
  7. alienly
  8. alienness
  9. aliennesses
  10. alienologist
  11. alienologists

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