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compartmentlike

compartmentlike adjective: resembling a compartment.

Adjective

compartmentlike (comparative more compartmentlike, superlative most compartmentlike)

  1. Resembling a compartment.
    • His art and his story are like few others, and MoMA puts both across in an inspired installation: a single long corridor with compartmentlike rooms of paintings on each side, and at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating above her.2007 February 9, Holland Cotter, “Modernist in Loincloth and Feathers”, in New York Times

Forms of compartmentlike

comparativemore compartmentlike
superlativemost compartmentlike

Origin of compartmentlike

From compartment + -like.

Questions about compartmentlike

What does compartmentlike mean?
Compartmentlike means resembling a compartment.
What part of speech is compartmentlike?
Compartmentlike is an adjective.

Words near compartmentlike in the dictionary

  1. compartmentize
  2. compartmentized
  3. compartmentizes
  4. compartmentizing
  5. compartmentless
  6. compartmentlike
  7. compartments
  8. compartmentsful
  9. compartner
  10. compartners
  11. comparts

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