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ditchlike

ditchlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a ditch.

Adjective

ditchlike (comparative more ditchlike, superlative most ditchlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ditch.
    • A small stream fed it and continued beyond it, so that the sheet of water, though turbid, was never ditchlike or unhealthy.1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

Forms of ditchlike

comparativemore ditchlike
superlativemost ditchlike

Origin of ditchlike

From ditch + -like.

Questions about ditchlike

What does ditchlike mean?
Ditchlike means resembling or characteristic of a ditch.
What part of speech is ditchlike?
Ditchlike is an adjective.

Words near ditchlike in the dictionary

  1. Ditchingham
  2. ditchings
  3. ditchless
  4. ditchlet
  5. ditchlets
  6. ditchlike
  7. Ditchling
  8. ditchside
  9. ditchsides
  10. ditchwater
  11. ditchwaters

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