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calypsolike

calypsolike adjective: resembling calypso music.

Adjective

calypsolike (comparative more calypsolike, superlative most calypsolike)

  1. Resembling calypso music.
    • The band is called Let Freedom Swing, and in Thursday night’s early set it played […] a calypsolike “We Shall Overcome”; and a version of Herbie Hancock ’s strange bossa nova “I Have a Dream.”2009 January 24, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz With a Mission, and a Groove”, in New York Times

Forms of calypsolike

comparativemore calypsolike
superlativemost calypsolike

Origin of calypsolike

From calypso + -like.

Questions about calypsolike

What does calypsolike mean?
Calypsolike means resembling calypso music.
What part of speech is calypsolike?
Calypsolike is an adjective.

Words near calypsolike in the dictionary

  1. calypso-like
  2. Calypsoan
  3. calypsoed
  4. calypsoes
  5. calypsoing
  6. calypsolike
  7. calypsonian
  8. calypsonians
  9. calypsos
  10. calypter
  11. calyptera

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