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mazelike

mazelike adjective: like a maze; labyrinthine.

Adjective

mazelike (comparative more mazelike, superlative most mazelike)

  1. Like a maze; labyrinthine.
    • If a military man with AIDS were discharged for homosexuality, he would lose his medical benefits and be thrown into the already overtaxed and maze-like system of public welfare.1985 February 9, Cindy Patton, “Heterosexual AIDS Panic: A Queer Paradigm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 3
    • The dark New York restaurant is a mazelike “ninja village,” with iron bars and cold stone lining the walls.2015 April 30, Jordan Bissell, “10 wacky U.S. restaurants”, in CNN

Forms of mazelike

comparativemore mazelike
superlativemost mazelike

Origin of mazelike

From maze + -like.

Questions about mazelike

What does mazelike mean?
Mazelike means like a maze; labyrinthine.
What part of speech is mazelike?
Mazelike is an adjective.

Words near mazelike in the dictionary

  1. mazedly
  2. mazedness
  3. mazeful
  4. mazefuls
  5. mazel tov
  6. mazelike
  7. mazeltov
  8. mazement
  9. mazements
  10. Mazepin
  11. mazepite

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