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familylike

familylike adjective: resembling a family.

Adjective

familylike (comparative more familylike, superlative most familylike)

  1. Resembling a family
    • Print and online ads, posters and signs in stores present images of attractive models -- men, women, children -- as singles and pairs or in familylike groups.2009 January 8, Stuart Elliott, “As Consumers Try to Cut Back, Tropicana Promotes Quality and Value”, in New York Times

Forms of familylike

comparativemore familylike
superlativemost familylike

Origin of familylike

From family + -like.

Questions about familylike

What does familylike mean?
Familylike means resembling a family.
What part of speech is familylike?
Familylike is an adjective.

Words near familylike in the dictionary

  1. familyism
  2. familyist
  3. familyists
  4. familyless
  5. familylessness
  6. familylike
  7. familymaxx
  8. familymaxxed
  9. familymaxxes
  10. familymaxxing
  11. familymoon

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