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foodlike

foodlike adjective: resembling food.

Adjective

foodlike (comparative more foodlike, superlative most foodlike)

  1. Resembling food.
    • Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket.2007 January 28, Michael Pollan, “Unhappy Meals”, in New York Times

Forms of foodlike

comparativemore foodlike
superlativemost foodlike

Origin of foodlike

From food + -like.

Questions about foodlike

What does foodlike mean?
Foodlike means resembling food.
What part of speech is foodlike?
Foodlike is an adjective.

Words near foodlike in the dictionary

  1. foodlegger
  2. foodleggers
  3. foodless
  4. foodlessly
  5. foodlessness
  6. foodlike
  7. foodloaf
  8. foodmonger
  9. foodmongers
  10. foodoholic
  11. foodoholics

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