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enginelike

enginelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an engine.

Adjective

enginelike (comparative more enginelike, superlative most enginelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an engine.
    • I remember my red rocket bicycle had baseball cards attached to the wheels so that the spokes made a ripping, enginelike noise.1979, Harold Fickett, Mrs. Sunday's problem, and other stories

Forms of enginelike

comparativemore enginelike
superlativemost enginelike

Origin of enginelike

From engine + -like.

Questions about enginelike

What does enginelike mean?
Enginelike means resembling or characteristic of an engine.
What part of speech is enginelike?
Enginelike is an adjective.

Words near enginelike in the dictionary

  1. engineership
  2. engineerships
  3. enginehouse
  4. enginehouses
  5. engineless
  6. enginelike
  7. engineman
  8. enginemanship
  9. enginemen
  10. enginer
  11. enginerd

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