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crapelike

crapelike adjective: resembling crape.

Adjective

crapelike (comparative more crapelike, superlative most crapelike)

  1. Resembling crape.
    • ...so I had sought through a dozen shops till I lit upon a crapelike material of purple-gray — the color, in short, of dun mist, lying on a moor in bloom.1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Forms of crapelike

comparativemore crapelike
superlativemost crapelike

Origin of crapelike

From crape + -like.

Questions about crapelike

What does crapelike mean?
Crapelike means resembling crape.
What part of speech is crapelike?
Crapelike is an adjective.

Words near crapelike in the dictionary

  1. craped
  2. crapefish
  3. crapehanger
  4. crapehangers
  5. crapehanging
  6. crapelike
  7. crapes
  8. crapette
  9. crapey
  10. crapface
  11. crapfaces

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