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balladlike

balladlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a ballad.

Adjective

balladlike (comparative more balladlike, superlative most balladlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.
    • This veteran jazz pianist’s new album, “Solo in Mondsee” (ECM), is a solo-piano record of improvisations, most of them balladlike and quite beautiful, even in their most sprawling phases.2007 August 19, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz as It Is and Was, and Flamenco as It Can Be”, in New York Times

Forms of balladlike

comparativemore balladlike
superlativemost balladlike

Origin of balladlike

From ballad + -like.

Questions about balladlike

What does balladlike mean?
Balladlike means resembling or characteristic of a ballad.
What part of speech is balladlike?
Balladlike is an adjective.

Words near balladlike in the dictionary

  1. balladists
  2. balladize
  3. balladized
  4. balladizes
  5. balladizing
  6. balladlike
  7. balladling
  8. balladlings
  9. balladmonger
  10. balladmongering
  11. balladmongers

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