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maidlike

maidlike adjective: maidenly.

Adjective

maidlike (comparative more maidlike, superlative most maidlike)

  1. (archaic, poetic) maidenly
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a maid (female domestic servant).
    • Somehow his maidlike service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.1978, Marc Edmund Jones, Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination

Forms of maidlike

comparativemore maidlike
superlativemost maidlike

Origin of maidlike

From maid + -like.

Questions about maidlike

What does maidlike mean?
Maidlike means maidenly.
What part of speech is maidlike?
Maidlike is an adjective.

Words near maidlike in the dictionary

  1. maidkins
  2. maidless
  3. maidlessness
  4. maidlier
  5. maidliest
  6. maidlike
  7. maidling
  8. maidlings
  9. maidly
  10. maidmarian
  11. maidmarians

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