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bladish

bladish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).

Adjective

bladish (comparative more bladish, superlative most bladish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).
    • […] a bladish flake of tachylite […] recovered from the tilted basal hardened sandy fine gravel ascribable to the second phase of this period.1985, The Journal of the Bihar Purāvid Parishad, volumes 9-10, page 13
  2. (archaic) Resembling or characteristic of a blade (dashing young man).
    • […] the smaller portrait painted a brisk, unentangled, young bachelor, gayly ranging up and down in the world; light-hearted, and a very little bladish perhaps; […]1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Forms of bladish

comparativemore bladish
superlativemost bladish

Origin of bladish

From blade + -ish.

Questions about bladish

What does bladish mean?
Bladish means resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).
What part of speech is bladish?
Bladish is an adjective.

Words near bladish in the dictionary

  1. bladevent
  2. bladevents
  3. bladewise
  4. bladework
  5. blading
  6. bladish
  7. Bladon
  8. blads
  9. blady
  10. blaeberries
  11. blaeberry

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