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chimneylike

chimneylike adjective: resembling a chimney, especially in shape.

Adjective

chimneylike (comparative more chimneylike, superlative most chimneylike)

  1. Resembling a chimney, especially in shape
    • “Some are tall and chimneylike, heroic cones,[…],” he said.2009 January 28, Robin Pogrebin, “MoMA Award Goes to Architecture for an Economic Hangover”, in New York Times

Forms of chimneylike

comparativemore chimneylike
superlativemost chimneylike

Origin of chimneylike

From chimney + -like.

Questions about chimneylike

What does chimneylike mean?
Chimneylike means resembling a chimney, especially in shape.
What part of speech is chimneylike?
Chimneylike is an adjective.

Words near chimneylike in the dictionary

  1. chimneyfuls
  2. chimneyhead
  3. chimneyheads
  4. chimneying
  5. chimneyless
  6. chimneylike
  7. chimneyman
  8. chimneymen
  9. chimneypiece
  10. chimneypieces
  11. chimneypot

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