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chairlike

chairlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a chair.

Adjective

chairlike (comparative more chairlike, superlative most chairlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a chair.
    • In contrast, Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s “house/home” was based on solid objects of beauty: a woven blanket, a chairlike sculpture.2012 November 20, Brian Seibert, “The Truth Changes, and Sometimes Chairs Do, Too”, in The New York Times

Forms of chairlike

comparativemore chairlike
superlativemost chairlike

Origin of chairlike

From chair + -like.

Questions about chairlike

What does chairlike mean?
Chairlike means resembling or characteristic of a chair.
What part of speech is chairlike?
Chairlike is an adjective.

Words near chairlike in the dictionary

  1. chairlady
  2. chairless
  3. chairlessness
  4. chairlift
  5. chairlifts
  6. chairlike
  7. chairmaker
  8. chairmaker's bulrush
  9. chairmaker's bulrushes
  10. chairmakers
  11. chairmaking

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