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fortlike

fortlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Adjective

fortlike (comparative more fortlike, superlative most fortlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
    • You know things are not going to work out well for a petty criminal when, stranded in a fortlike compound occupied by three young women who look like American Girl versions of 19th-century psychiatric nurses and talk like the weird sisters in “Macbeth,” he innocently inquires about Internet access.2008 June 5, Ginia Bellafante, “Horror Show’s Life Lessons ...Er, Maybe Death Lessons”, in New York Times

Forms of fortlike

comparativemore fortlike
superlativemost fortlike

Origin of fortlike

From fort + -like.

Questions about fortlike

What does fortlike mean?
Fortlike means resembling or characteristic of a fort.
What part of speech is fortlike?
Fortlike is an adjective.

Words near fortlike in the dictionary

  1. fortitude
  2. fortitudes
  3. fortitudinous
  4. fortlet
  5. fortlets
  6. fortlike
  7. Fortman
  8. Fortmans
  9. Fortner
  10. fortneth
  11. fortneths

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