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bubblelike

bubblelike adjective: having the characteristics of a bubble.

Adjective

bubblelike (comparative more bubblelike, superlative most bubblelike)

  1. Having the characteristics of a bubble.
    • To obtain machinery, capital had to be raised; and to do this, calls had to be made upon the shares of the newly-floated companies, many of which were of too bubble-like a texture to stand the slightest strain on their finances.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 171

Forms of bubblelike

comparativemore bubblelike
superlativemost bubblelike

Origin of bubblelike

From bubble + -like.

Questions about bubblelike

What does bubblelike mean?
Bubblelike means having the characteristics of a bubble.
What part of speech is bubblelike?
Bubblelike is an adjective.

Words near bubblelike in the dictionary

  1. bubbleheaded
  2. bubbleheads
  3. bubblejet
  4. bubblejets
  5. bubbleless
  6. bubblelike
  7. bubblement
  8. bubbler
  9. bubblers
  10. bubbles
  11. bubbles in

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