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crushlike

crushlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).

Adjective

crushlike (comparative more crushlike, superlative most crushlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).
    • She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid. Such a crushlike intensity of looking suggested hunger.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of crushlike

comparativemore crushlike
superlativemost crushlike

Origin of crushlike

From crush + -like.

Questions about crushlike

What does crushlike mean?
Crushlike means resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).
What part of speech is crushlike?
Crushlike is an adjective.

Words near crushlike in the dictionary

  1. crushing out
  2. crushingest
  3. crushingly
  4. crushingness
  5. crushings
  6. crushlike
  7. crushophile
  8. crushproof
  9. crushroom
  10. crusht
  11. crushworthy

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