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loaflike

loaflike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a loaf.

Adjective

loaflike (comparative more loaflike, superlative most loaflike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a loaf.
    • The material had a loaflike appearance
    • The forms which Nauman took to making at the time were spindly affairs, loaflike and split into arching rails.1986, Robert Pincus-Witten, Postminimalism into Maximalism: American art, 1966-1986, UMI Research Press, page 79

Forms of loaflike

comparativemore loaflike
superlativemost loaflike

Origin of loaflike

From loaf + -like.

Questions about loaflike

What does loaflike mean?
Loaflike means resembling or characteristic of a loaf.
What part of speech is loaflike?
Loaflike is an adjective.

Words near loaflike in the dictionary

  1. loafing around
  2. loafingly
  3. loafings
  4. loaflet
  5. loaflets
  6. loaflike
  7. loafs
  8. loafs about
  9. loafs around
  10. loafy
  11. Loaghtan

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