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cabinetlike

cabinetlike adjective: resembling a cabinet.

Adjective

cabinetlike (comparative more cabinetlike, superlative most cabinetlike)

  1. Resembling a cabinet
    • His art and his story are like few others, and so is the museum’s inspired installation: a single, long corridor with cabinetlike rooms of paintings on either side and, at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating overhead.2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of cabinetlike

comparativemore cabinetlike
superlativemost cabinetlike

Origin of cabinetlike

From cabinet + -like.

Questions about cabinetlike

What does cabinetlike mean?
Cabinetlike means resembling a cabinet.
What part of speech is cabinetlike?
Cabinetlike is an adjective.

Words near cabinetlike in the dictionary

  1. cabineteer
  2. cabineteers
  3. cabinetful
  4. cabinetfuls
  5. cabinetisation
  6. cabinetlike
  7. cabinetmaker
  8. cabinetmakers
  9. cabinetmaking
  10. cabinetries
  11. cabinetry

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