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chessboardlike

chessboardlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a chessboard.

Adjective

chessboardlike (comparative more chessboardlike, superlative most chessboardlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a chessboard.
    • A large chessboardlike aquarium was made, which contained 25 separate compartments 15 × 15 × 15 cm in size.1993, Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, Peter H Klopfer, Nicholas S Thompson, Behavior and evolution

Forms of chessboardlike

comparativemore chessboardlike
superlativemost chessboardlike

Origin of chessboardlike

From chessboard + -like.

Questions about chessboardlike

What does chessboardlike mean?
Chessboardlike means resembling or characteristic of a chessboard.
What part of speech is chessboardlike?
Chessboardlike is an adjective.

Words near chessboardlike in the dictionary

  1. Chess960
  2. chessaholic
  3. chessboard
  4. chessboard distance
  5. chessboard distances
  6. chessboardlike
  7. chessboards
  8. chessboxer
  9. chessboxers
  10. chessboxing
  11. chessclock

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