Word.ws English Dictionary

lizardly

lizardly adjective: reminiscent of or similar to a lizard.

Adjective

lizardly (comparative more lizardly, superlative most lizardly)

  1. Reminiscent of or similar to a lizard.
    • […] the eyes of replicants creator Dr. Eldon Tyrell are magnified by large lenses in his glasses, giving him a lizardly look.2009, James W. Roman, Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies that Defined America, page 258
  2. Pertaining to lizards; lizard-related.
    • Only the taloned fingers at the "shoulders" of their wings showed the lizardly blood, and their orange bills full of sharp fishy teeth.1988, B. W. Clough, The Name of the Sun, volume 3, page 126
    • But whatever malign emotions we tried to pin on to the lizard, we knew that they weren't the lizard's emotions at all, only ours. The lizard was simply going about its lizardly business in a simple, straightforward lizardly way.1989, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See

Synonyms of lizardly

Forms of lizardly

comparativemore lizardly
superlativemost lizardly

Origin of lizardly

From lizard + -ly.

Questions about lizardly

What does lizardly mean?
Lizardly means reminiscent of or similar to a lizard.
What part of speech is lizardly?
Lizardly is an adjective.

Words near lizardly in the dictionary

  1. lizardkind
  2. lizardless
  3. lizardlike
  4. lizardling
  5. lizardlings
  6. lizardly
  7. lizardman
  8. Lizardman's Constant
  9. lizardmen
  10. lizardness
  11. Lizardo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lizardly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lizardly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lizardly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.