Word.ws English Dictionary

mantralike

mantralike adjective: resembling a mantra; fervent and often repeated.

Adjective

mantralike (comparative more mantralike, superlative most mantralike)

  1. Resembling a mantra; fervent and often repeated.
    • By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, →ISBN, page 173

Forms of mantralike

comparativemore mantralike
superlativemost mantralike

Origin of mantralike

From mantra + -like.

Questions about mantralike

What does mantralike mean?
Mantralike means resembling a mantra; fervent and often repeated.
What part of speech is mantralike?
Mantralike is an adjective.

Words near mantralike in the dictionary

  1. Mantoux tests
  2. Mantovanian
  3. mantra
  4. mantracking
  5. mantraless
  6. mantralike
  7. mantram
  8. mantrams
  9. mantrap
  10. mantraps
  11. mantras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mantralike (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: “mantralike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mantralike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.