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jellylike

jellylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of jelly.

Adjective

jellylike (comparative more jellylike, superlative most jellylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of jelly.
    • The teller is innocent and happy and pleased with himself, and has to stop every little while to hold himself in and keep from laughing outright; and does hold in, but his body quakes in a jelly-like way with interior chuckles; and at the end of the ten minutes the audience have laughed until they...1895, Mark Twain, “How to Tell a Story,” in Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, edited by Tom Quirk, Penguin, 1994, originally published in The Youth’s Companion, 3 October, 1895
    • However quickly the water was used, there were always larvae of some sort on its surface, jumpy jellylike whiskery things, perfection in their way.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5

Synonyms of jellylike

Forms of jellylike

comparativemore jellylike
superlativemost jellylike
alternative formjelly-like

Origin of jellylike

From jelly + -like.

Questions about jellylike

What does jellylike mean?
Jellylike means resembling or characteristic of jelly.
What part of speech is jellylike?
Jellylike is an adjective.

Words near jellylike in the dictionary

  1. jellygraphing
  2. jellygraphs
  3. jellying
  4. jellyish
  5. jellyleaf
  6. jellylike
  7. jellyplankton
  8. jellyroll
  9. jellyrolls
  10. jellyvore
  11. jellyvores

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