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evolutionlike

evolutionlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of evolution.

Adjective

evolutionlike (comparative more evolutionlike, superlative most evolutionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of evolution.
    • When she moves from anthropological classification to fantasy, her figures adapt, evolutionlike, to the tasks at hand.2007 April 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Forms of evolutionlike

comparativemore evolutionlike
superlativemost evolutionlike

Origin of evolutionlike

From evolution + -like.

Questions about evolutionlike

What does evolutionlike mean?
Evolutionlike means resembling or characteristic of evolution.
What part of speech is evolutionlike?
Evolutionlike is an adjective.

Words near evolutionlike in the dictionary

  1. evolutionist
  2. evolutionistic
  3. evolutionistically
  4. evolutionists
  5. evolutionize
  6. evolutionlike
  7. evolutions
  8. evolutive
  9. evolutively
  10. evolutiveness
  11. evolutivity

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