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lawish

lawish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a law.

Adjective

lawish (comparative more lawish, superlative most lawish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a law.
    • [A] general statement is lawish if it is of explanatory and predictive use, successfully guides manipulation, and supports counterfactuals.2013, Marie I. Kaiser, Oliver R. Scholz, Daniel Plenge, Explanation in the Special Sciences, page 133

Forms of lawish

comparativemore lawish
superlativemost lawish

Origin of lawish

From law + -ish.

Questions about lawish

What does lawish mean?
Lawish means resembling or characteristic of a law.
What part of speech is lawish?
Lawish is an adjective.

Words near lawish in the dictionary

  1. lawine
  2. lawines
  3. lawing
  4. lawings
  5. Lawis
  6. lawish
  7. Lawitta
  8. lawk
  9. lawkeeper
  10. lawkeepers
  11. lawkeeping

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