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anchorlike

anchorlike adjective: resembling an anchor.

Adjective

anchorlike (comparative more anchorlike, superlative most anchorlike)

  1. Resembling an anchor.

Forms of anchorlike

comparativemore anchorlike
superlativemost anchorlike

Origin of anchorlike

From anchor + -like.

Questions about anchorlike

What does anchorlike mean?
Anchorlike means resembling an anchor.
What part of speech is anchorlike?
Anchorlike is an adjective.

Words near anchorlike in the dictionary

  1. anchoritically
  2. anchoritish
  3. anchoritism
  4. anchorless
  5. anchorlessness
  6. anchorlike
  7. anchorman
  8. anchormen
  9. anchorpeople
  10. anchorperson
  11. anchorpersons

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