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bomblike

bomblike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bomb.

Adjective

bomblike (comparative more bomblike, superlative most bomblike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bomb.
    • The dance carries on undisturbed by this possible news footage, until, after a while, the dancers line up on one of three arching bridges (the main items of Ms. Hadid’s décor, variously shunted around the stage) to look, calmly, at this bomblike view, as if to say “Oh la la!”2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times

Forms of bomblike

comparativemore bomblike
superlativemost bomblike

Origin of bomblike

From bomb + -like.

Questions about bomblike

What does bomblike mean?
Bomblike means resembling or characteristic of a bomb.
What part of speech is bomblike?
Bomblike is an adjective.

Words near bomblike in the dictionary

  1. Bombira
  2. bombless
  3. bomblessness
  4. bomblet
  5. bomblets
  6. bomblike
  7. bombline
  8. bomblines
  9. bombload
  10. bombloads
  11. bombmaker

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