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jokelike

jokelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a joke.

Adjective

jokelike (comparative more jokelike, superlative most jokelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a joke.
    • Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers.2009, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Art without borders: a philosophical exploration of art and humanity

Forms of jokelike

comparativemore jokelike
superlativemost jokelike

Origin of jokelike

From joke + -like.

Questions about jokelike

What does jokelike mean?
Jokelike means resembling or characteristic of a joke.
What part of speech is jokelike?
Jokelike is an adjective.

Words near jokelike in the dictionary

  1. jokelang
  2. jokeless
  3. jokelessness
  4. jokelet
  5. jokelets
  6. jokelike
  7. jokely
  8. jokeman
  9. jokemen
  10. jokeproof
  11. joker

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