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candlesticklike

candlesticklike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a candlestick.

Adjective

candlesticklike (comparative more candlesticklike, superlative most candlesticklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a candlestick.
    • a great heavy, many-armed candlesticklike thing which sits ornamentally in the center of the table1993, Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew

Forms of candlesticklike

comparativemore candlesticklike
superlativemost candlesticklike

Origin of candlesticklike

From candlestick + -like.

Questions about candlesticklike

What does candlesticklike mean?
Candlesticklike means resembling or characteristic of a candlestick.
What part of speech is candlesticklike?
Candlesticklike is an adjective.

Words near candlesticklike in the dictionary

  1. candlestick phones
  2. candlestick telephone
  3. candlestick telephones
  4. candlesticked
  5. candlesticking
  6. candlesticklike
  7. candlesticks
  8. candlestub
  9. candlestubs
  10. candlewaster
  11. candlewasters

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