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goblinish

goblinish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a goblin.

Adjective

goblinish (comparative more goblinish, superlative most goblinish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a goblin.
    • […] the castellated towers of laurel in the middle of the garden, the gigantic warrior that stood on one side of the gateway, and the lion that guarded the other, were sprouted into such fantastic shapes as resembled nothing either in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the earth; but, to my...1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 2, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, volume 1, London: T. C. Newby, pages 32–33
    • […] the phrase ‘grotesque’ is a misleading description of ugliness in art. It does not follow that either the Chinese dragons or the Gothic gargoyles or the goblinish old women of Rembrandt were in the least intended to be comic.1902, G. K. Chesterton, “A Defence of Ugly Things”, in The Defendant, London: E. Brimley Johnson, page 87

Synonyms of goblinish

Forms of goblinish

comparativemore goblinish
superlativemost goblinish

Origin of goblinish

From goblin + -ish. Piecewise doublet of goblinesque.

Questions about goblinish

What does goblinish mean?
Goblinish means resembling or characteristic of a goblin.
What part of speech is goblinish?
Goblinish is an adjective.

Words near goblinish in the dictionary

  1. gobline
  2. goblines
  3. goblinesque
  4. gobliness
  5. goblinesses
  6. goblinish
  7. goblinism
  8. goblinize
  9. goblinized
  10. goblinizes
  11. goblinizing

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