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medicinelike

medicinelike adjective: resembling medicine or some aspect of it.

Adjective

medicinelike (comparative more medicinelike, superlative most medicinelike)

  1. Resembling medicine or some aspect of it.
    • It was my first whiskey and it tasted harsh and medicinelike.1994, Allen Say, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice

Forms of medicinelike

comparativemore medicinelike
superlativemost medicinelike

Origin of medicinelike

From medicine + -like.

Questions about medicinelike

What does medicinelike mean?
Medicinelike means resembling medicine or some aspect of it.
What part of speech is medicinelike?
Medicinelike is an adjective.

Words near medicinelike in the dictionary

  1. medicine wheel
  2. medicine wheels
  3. medicine woman
  4. medicine women
  5. medicined
  6. medicinelike
  7. mediciner
  8. mediciners
  9. medicines
  10. mediciney
  11. medicining

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