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highwaylike

highwaylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a highway.

Adjective

highwaylike (comparative more highwaylike, superlative most highwaylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a highway.
    • Dr. Adamatzky, the researcher who watched acellular molds form highwaylike patterns, has also used them to simulate a nuclear disaster.2011 March 10, Carl Zimmer, “Can Answers To Evolution Be Found In Slime?”, in The New York Times
    • The project’s claims about being the first car-free city are nonsense since there are massive highwaylike roads running through it.2022 October 14, David Paterson, “New smart cities can’t escape the same old problems”, in Toronto Star

Forms of highwaylike

comparativemore highwaylike
superlativemost highwaylike

Origin of highwaylike

From highway + -like.

Questions about highwaylike

What does highwaylike mean?
Highwaylike means resembling or characteristic of a highway.
What part of speech is highwaylike?
Highwaylike is an adjective.

Words near highwaylike in the dictionary

  1. highway yellows
  2. highway-robberies
  3. highway-robbery
  4. highwayed
  5. highwayless
  6. highwaylike
  7. highwayman
  8. highwaymen
  9. highways
  10. Highways Agency
  11. highways and byways

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