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hooklike

hooklike adjective: resembling a hook.

Adjective

hooklike (comparative more hooklike, superlative most hooklike)

  1. Resembling a hook.

Forms of hooklike

comparativemore hooklike
superlativemost hooklike

Origin of hooklike

From hook + -like.

Questions about hooklike

What does hooklike mean?
Hooklike means resembling a hook.
What part of speech is hooklike?
Hooklike is an adjective.

Words near hooklike in the dictionary

  1. hookkeepers
  2. hookless
  3. hooklessness
  4. hooklet
  5. hooklets
  6. hooklike
  7. hookling
  8. hookmaker
  9. hookmakers
  10. hookmaking
  11. hookman

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