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fanfarelike

fanfarelike adjective: resembling a fanfare.

Adjective

fanfarelike (comparative more fanfarelike, superlative most fanfarelike)

  1. Resembling a fanfare.
    • His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it.2007 January 23, Allan Kozinn, “Bach’s Strolls and Puzzles in All Keys, Major and Minor”, in New York Times

Forms of fanfarelike

comparativemore fanfarelike
superlativemost fanfarelike

Origin of fanfarelike

From fanfare + -like.

Questions about fanfarelike

What does fanfarelike mean?
Fanfarelike means resembling a fanfare.
What part of speech is fanfarelike?
Fanfarelike is an adjective.

Words near fanfarelike in the dictionary

  1. Fanfans
  2. fanfarade
  3. fanfarades
  4. fanfare
  5. fanfared
  6. fanfarelike
  7. fanfares
  8. fanfaring
  9. fanfarings
  10. fanfaron
  11. fanfarona

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