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mittenlike

mittenlike adjective: resembling mittens.

Adjective

mittenlike (comparative more mittenlike, superlative most mittenlike)

  1. Resembling mittens
    • But the doctors had to amputate the top bone of the two bones in each thumb and the top two of the three bones in each of the other eight fingers, leaving her with mittenlike hands.1988 April 22, Steve Bogira, “A Fire in the Family”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of mittenlike

comparativemore mittenlike
superlativemost mittenlike

Origin of mittenlike

From mitten + -like.

Questions about mittenlike

What does mittenlike mean?
Mittenlike means resembling mittens.
What part of speech is mittenlike?
Mittenlike is an adjective.

Words near mittenlike in the dictionary

  1. mittened
  2. mittenful
  3. mittenfuls
  4. mittening
  5. mittenless
  6. mittenlike
  7. Mittenpunkt
  8. mittens
  9. mittensful
  10. mittent
  11. Mittenwald

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