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Learlike

Learlike adjective: resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.

Adjective

Learlike (comparative more Learlike, superlative most Learlike)

  1. Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
    • He even declined their company, and went down to the beach alone for his daily walk, to ponder on the event;—wondering whether it excited as much sensation in the family as when, in his early days of wedded life, an heir to the barony of Hartingham was looked for in his own household; and feeling...1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 7, in The Diamond, and the Pearl, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 144
    • […] that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in the Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom […]1989, John Irving, chapter 6, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 265

Forms of Learlike

comparativemore Learlike
superlativemost Learlike

Questions about Learlike

What does Learlike mean?
Learlike means resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
What part of speech is Learlike?
Learlike is an adjective.

Words near Learlike in the dictionary

  1. Learian
  2. learier
  3. leariest
  4. learily
  5. learing
  6. Learlike
  7. Learmonth
  8. learn
  9. learn Arabic
  10. learn Chinese
  11. learn from experience

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