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engineerish

engineerish adjective: characteristic of an engineer.

Adjective

engineerish (comparative more engineerish, superlative most engineerish)

  1. Characteristic of an engineer.
    • They were dressed informally in jeans and shirts with open collars, and were similar in bearing—soft-spoken, friendly, distinctly engineerish.1995, Craig Canine, Dream Reapers: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture, New York, NY: Knopf, →ISBN, page 219

Forms of engineerish

comparativemore engineerish
superlativemost engineerish

Origin of engineerish

From engineer + -ish.

Questions about engineerish

What does engineerish mean?
Engineerish means characteristic of an engineer.
What part of speech is engineerish?
Engineerish is an adjective.

Words near engineerish in the dictionary

  1. engineering stress
  2. engineering stresses
  3. engineering works
  4. engineeringly
  5. engineerings
  6. engineerish
  7. engineerization
  8. engineers
  9. Engineers Hill
  10. engineership
  11. engineerships

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