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mandolinlike

mandolinlike adjective: resembling a mandolin, or the sound of mandolin music.

Adjective

mandolinlike (comparative more mandolinlike, superlative most mandolinlike)

  1. Resembling a mandolin, or the sound of mandolin music
    • The Edge's distinctive mandolinlike upper-position chord fills took on a more sparkling quality, and Bono added some depth to his singing.1988 December 9, Alex Wilding-White, “Ho and Hum: Is success spoiling U2?”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of mandolinlike

comparativemore mandolinlike
superlativemost mandolinlike

Origin of mandolinlike

From mandolin + -like.

Questions about mandolinlike

What does mandolinlike mean?
Mandolinlike means resembling a mandolin, or the sound of mandolin music.
What part of speech is mandolinlike?
Mandolinlike is an adjective.

Words near mandolinlike in the dictionary

  1. mandoliners
  2. mandolines
  3. mandolining
  4. mandolinist
  5. mandolinists
  6. mandolinlike
  7. mandolins
  8. mandolist
  9. mandolists
  10. mandolute
  11. mandolutes

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