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hotelish

hotelish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a hotel.

Adjective

hotelish (comparative more hotelish, superlative most hotelish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a hotel.
    • What a bare, hotelish room it was! He tossed off his coat and sat for ten minutes looking blankly at the sputtering gas jet. Then his whole life, desolate as a desert, loomed up before him with appalling distinctness.1913, E. Pauline Johnson, A Red Girl's Reasoning

Forms of hotelish

comparativemore hotelish
superlativemost hotelish

Origin of hotelish

From hotel + -ish.

Questions about hotelish

What does hotelish mean?
Hotelish means resembling or characteristic of a hotel.
What part of speech is hotelish?
Hotelish is an adjective.

Words near hotelish in the dictionary

  1. hotel-apartments
  2. hoteldom
  3. hotelier
  4. hoteliers
  5. hoteling
  6. hotelish
  7. hotelization
  8. hotelize
  9. hotelized
  10. hotelizes
  11. hotelizing

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