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lightninglike

lightninglike adjective: resembling or characteristic of lightning.

Adjective

lightninglike (comparative more lightninglike, superlative most lightninglike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of lightning.
    • Connecting the images is the oratorio’s Latin text in calligraphy, by Brody Neusenschwander, that scrolls up the screen sideways in lightninglike flashes that disappear almost in the blink of eye.2007 April 27, Stephen Holden, “Mankind’s Appetite for Destruction in the 20th Century”, in New York Times

Forms of lightninglike

comparativemore lightninglike
superlativemost lightninglike

Origin of lightninglike

From lightning + -like.

Questions about lightninglike

What does lightninglike mean?
Lightninglike means resembling or characteristic of lightning.
What part of speech is lightninglike?
Lightninglike is an adjective.

Words near lightninglike in the dictionary

  1. lightning wars
  2. lightning-quick
  3. lightningbug
  4. lightninged
  5. lightninging
  6. lightninglike
  7. lightningly
  8. lightningproof
  9. lightnings
  10. lightpaper
  11. lightpapers

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