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gorillalike

gorillalike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.

Adjective

gorillalike (comparative more gorillalike, superlative most gorillalike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
    • The faint light that filtered in from above showed him a large, low-ceiled vault from which several doorways led off into inky darkness, but there was no need to thread an unknown way, for there before him lay the objects of his search—the mad brute had the girl upon the floor, and gorilla-like...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 171

Synonyms of gorillalike

Forms of gorillalike

comparativemore gorillalike
superlativemost gorillalike
alternative formgorilla-like

Origin of gorillalike

From gorilla + -like.

Questions about gorillalike

What does gorillalike mean?
Gorillalike means resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
What part of speech is gorillalike?
Gorillalike is an adjective.

Words near gorillalike in the dictionary

  1. gorillagram
  2. gorillagrams
  3. gorillahon
  4. Gorillai
  5. gorillaish
  6. gorillalike
  7. gorillas
  8. gorillas in the room
  9. gorillaship
  10. gorilless
  11. gorillesses

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