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missilelike

missilelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a missile.

Adjective

missilelike (comparative more missilelike, superlative most missilelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a missile.
    • Frozen on the distant movie screen is an airplane that points, missilelike, toward the passing train.2007 December 30, Ken Johnson, “A Happy Accident, Carefully Planned”, in New York Times

Forms of missilelike

comparativemore missilelike
superlativemost missilelike

Origin of missilelike

From missile + -like.

Questions about missilelike

What does missilelike mean?
Missilelike means resembling or characteristic of a missile.
What part of speech is missilelike?
Missilelike is an adjective.

Words near missilelike in the dictionary

  1. missile gaps
  2. missile silo
  3. missile silos
  4. missileer
  5. missileers
  6. missilelike
  7. missileman
  8. missilemen
  9. missileproof
  10. missilery
  11. missiles

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