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cancerlike

cancerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of cancer.

Adjective

cancerlike (comparative more cancerlike, superlative most cancerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of cancer.

Forms of cancerlike

comparativemore cancerlike
superlativemost cancerlike

Origin of cancerlike

From cancer + -like.

Questions about cancerlike

What does cancerlike mean?
Cancerlike means resembling or characteristic of cancer.
What part of speech is cancerlike?
Cancerlike is an adjective.

Words near cancerlike in the dictionary

  1. cancerization
  2. cancerizations
  3. cancerize
  4. cancerized
  5. cancerless
  6. cancerlike
  7. cancerocidal
  8. cancerogen
  9. cancerogenesis
  10. cancerogenic
  11. cancerogenous

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