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boatlike

boatlike adjective: resembling a boat.

Adjective

boatlike (comparative more boatlike, superlative most boatlike)

  1. Resembling a boat
    • The bigger problem, though, was finding a space that could accommodate the boatlike LS, which is 198 inches long.2007 October 24, Jeffrey Selingo, “How Well Can a Lexus Park Itself?”, in New York Times

Forms of boatlike

comparativemore boatlike
superlativemost boatlike

Origin of boatlike

From boat + -like.

Questions about boatlike

What does boatlike mean?
Boatlike means resembling a boat.
What part of speech is boatlike?
Boatlike is an adjective.

Words near boatlike in the dictionary

  1. boatlets
  2. boatlift
  3. boatlifted
  4. boatlifting
  5. boatlifts
  6. boatlike
  7. boatlip
  8. boatload
  9. boatloads
  10. boatmaker
  11. boatmakers

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