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mimelike

mimelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of the art of mime.

Adjective

mimelike (comparative more mimelike, superlative most mimelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the art of mime.
    • Then ponderously, with its whole body rocking from side to side, it lifted one flipper into the air in an exaggerated mimelike movement.2005, Jonathan Turk, In the wake of the Jomon: stone age mariners and a voyage across the Pacific

Forms of mimelike

comparativemore mimelike
superlativemost mimelike

Origin of mimelike

From mime + -like.

Questions about mimelike

What does mimelike mean?
Mimelike means resembling or characteristic of the art of mime.
What part of speech is mimelike?
Mimelike is an adjective.

Words near mimelike in the dictionary

  1. MIMD
  2. mime
  3. mime out
  4. mimecan
  5. mimed
  6. mimelike
  7. mimeme
  8. mimemes
  9. mimeo
  10. mimeo.
  11. mimeoed

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