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dulcimerlike

dulcimerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.

Adjective

dulcimerlike (comparative more dulcimerlike, superlative most dulcimerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.
    • A gently droning main theme on a dulcimerlike instrument sets the mood as other instruments enter with delicate sliding figurations, speckled bursts of percussion and sustained chords that sound entrancingly off-pitch.2007 December 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Dreams (and Instruments) of a Visionary Tinkerer”, in New York Times

Forms of dulcimerlike

comparativemore dulcimerlike
superlativemost dulcimerlike

Origin of dulcimerlike

From dulcimer + -like.

Questions about dulcimerlike

What does dulcimerlike mean?
Dulcimerlike means resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.
What part of speech is dulcimerlike?
Dulcimerlike is an adjective.

Words near dulcimerlike in the dictionary

  1. dulciloquent
  2. dulciloquy
  3. dulcimer
  4. dulcimerist
  5. dulcimerists
  6. dulcimerlike
  7. dulcimers
  8. dulcimore
  9. dulcimores
  10. dulcin
  11. dulcinea

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