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hobbylike

hobbylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a hobby (interest).

Adjective

hobbylike (comparative more hobbylike, superlative most hobbylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a hobby (interest).
    • With the lifting of his “depression,” he’d developed a new interest, hobbylike in its intensity, in framable and collectible railroad memorabilia, and he could happily have spent the whole day—the whole week!—pursuing it. . .2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of hobbylike

comparativemore hobbylike
superlativemost hobbylike

Origin of hobbylike

From hobby + -like.

Questions about hobbylike

What does hobbylike mean?
Hobbylike means resembling or characteristic of a hobby (interest).
What part of speech is hobbylike?
Hobbylike is an adjective.

Words near hobbylike in the dictionary

  1. hobbyisms
  2. hobbyist
  3. hobbyistic
  4. hobbyists
  5. hobbyless
  6. hobbylike
  7. Hobbys
  8. Hobbys Yards
  9. hobday
  10. hobdayed
  11. hobdaying

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