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dictionarylike

dictionarylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a dictionary.

Adjective

dictionarylike (comparative more dictionarylike, superlative most dictionarylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dictionary.

Forms of dictionarylike

comparativemore dictionarylike
superlativemost dictionarylike

Origin of dictionarylike

From dictionary + -like.

Questions about dictionarylike

What does dictionarylike mean?
Dictionarylike means resembling or characteristic of a dictionary.
What part of speech is dictionarylike?
Dictionarylike is an adjective.

Words near dictionarylike in the dictionary

  1. dictionary-monger
  2. dictionary-mongers
  3. dictionaryese
  4. dictionarying
  5. dictionaryless
  6. dictionarylike
  7. dictionnaries
  8. dictionnary
  9. dictions
  10. dictiosome
  11. dictiosomes

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