Word.ws English Dictionary

detectivelike

detectivelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a detective.

Adjective

detectivelike (comparative more detectivelike, superlative most detectivelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a detective.

Forms of detectivelike

comparativemore detectivelike
superlativemost detectivelike

Origin of detectivelike

From detective + -like.

Questions about detectivelike

What does detectivelike mean?
Detectivelike means resembling or characteristic of a detective.
What part of speech is detectivelike?
Detectivelike is an adjective.

Words near detectivelike in the dictionary

  1. detective inspector
  2. detective sergeant
  3. detective sergeants
  4. detective work
  5. detectived
  6. detectivelike
  7. detectives
  8. detectiving
  9. detectivities
  10. detectivity
  11. detectograph

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: detectivelike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “detectivelike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/detectivelike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.