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glacierlike

glacierlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a glacier.

Adjective

glacierlike (comparative more glacierlike, superlative most glacierlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a glacier.
    • This year the installation is made up of two stainless-steel tree sculptures — “Conjoined” and “Defunct” — and a glacierlike boulder, “Erratic,” by Roxy Paine, a conceptual artist who often juxtaposes nature and modern industrialization.2007 May 18, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of glacierlike

comparativemore glacierlike
superlativemost glacierlike

Origin of glacierlike

From glacier + -like.

Questions about glacierlike

What does glacierlike mean?
Glacierlike means resembling or characteristic of a glacier.
What part of speech is glacierlike?
Glacierlike is an adjective.

Words near glacierlike in the dictionary

  1. glacierists
  2. glacierization
  3. glacierizations
  4. glacierized
  5. glacierless
  6. glacierlike
  7. glaciers
  8. glacified
  9. glacifies
  10. glacifluvial
  11. glacify

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