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animalish

animalish adjective: resembling an animal.

Adjective

animalish (comparative more animalish, superlative most animalish)

  1. Resembling an animal.

Synonyms of animalish

Forms of animalish

comparativemore animalish
superlativemost animalish

Origin of animalish

From animal + -ish. Piecewise doublet of animalesque.

Questions about animalish

What does animalish mean?
Animalish means resembling an animal.
What part of speech is animalish?
Animalish is an adjective.

Words near animalish in the dictionary

  1. animaliers
  2. animalisation
  3. animalise
  4. animalised
  5. animalises
  6. animalish
  7. animalising
  8. animalism
  9. animalisms
  10. animalist
  11. animalistic

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