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fortresslike

fortresslike adjective: resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.

Adjective

fortresslike (comparative more fortresslike, superlative most fortresslike)

  1. Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
    • The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2020

Forms of fortresslike

comparativemore fortresslike
superlativemost fortresslike

Origin of fortresslike

From fortress + -like.

Questions about fortresslike

What does fortresslike mean?
Fortresslike means resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
What part of speech is fortresslike?
Fortresslike is an adjective.

Words near fortresslike in the dictionary

  1. Fortress Hill
  2. fortresse
  3. fortressed
  4. fortresses
  5. fortressing
  6. fortresslike
  7. Fortriu
  8. Fortrose
  9. forts
  10. Fortson
  11. Fortsons

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