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gorgonlike

gorgonlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a gorgon.

Adjective

gorgonlike (comparative more gorgonlike, superlative most gorgonlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gorgon.
    • When Wilde originally wrote Earnest he never intended Lady Bracknell to be quite so gorgonlike. She became the stereotyped domineering and antagonistic mother-in-law in George Alexander's "reworked" version.1997, Patrick M. Horan, The Importance of Being Paradoxical, page 109

Forms of gorgonlike

comparativemore gorgonlike
superlativemost gorgonlike

Origin of gorgonlike

From gorgon + -like.

Questions about gorgonlike

What does gorgonlike mean?
Gorgonlike means resembling or characteristic of a gorgon.
What part of speech is gorgonlike?
Gorgonlike is an adjective.

Words near gorgonlike in the dictionary

  1. gorgonising
  2. gorgonize
  3. gorgonized
  4. gorgonizes
  5. gorgonizing
  6. gorgonlike
  7. gorgonocephalid
  8. gorgonocephalids
  9. gorgonopsian
  10. gorgonopsians
  11. gorgonopsid

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