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ladderlike

ladderlike adjective: resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).

Adjective

ladderlike (comparative more ladderlike, superlative most ladderlike)

  1. Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).
    • How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244
    • The fastest moving components of capsular polysaccharides can usually be separated as distinct bands in a ladderlike pattern by gel electrophoresis...1989, Elizabeth F Neufeld, Victor Ginsburg, Complex Carbohydrates

Forms of ladderlike

comparativemore ladderlike
superlativemost ladderlike

Origin of ladderlike

From ladder + -like.

Questions about ladderlike

What does ladderlike mean?
Ladderlike means resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).
What part of speech is ladderlike?
Ladderlike is an adjective.

Words near ladderlike in the dictionary

  1. ladderize
  2. ladderized
  3. ladderizes
  4. ladderizing
  5. ladderless
  6. ladderlike
  7. ladderman
  8. laddermen
  9. ladderproof
  10. ladders
  11. laddertron

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