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monkeyish

monkeyish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a monkey.

Adjective

monkeyish (comparative more monkeyish, superlative most monkeyish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a monkey.

monkeyish meaning in Bengali and Kannada

monkeyish in Bengali

বানরের মতো দেখতে

monkeyish in Kannada

ಕಪಿಯಂಥ, ಕಪಿಚೇಷ್ಟೆಯ, ಮಂಗಾಟದ

Synonyms of monkeyish

Forms of monkeyish

comparativemore monkeyish
superlativemost monkeyish

Origin of monkeyish

From monkey + -ish. Piecewise doublet of monkeyesque.

Words formed from monkeyish

Questions about monkeyish

What does monkeyish mean?
Monkeyish means resembling or characteristic of a monkey.
What is monkeyish in Bengali?
Monkeyish in Bengali is বানরের মতো দেখতে. See Monkeyish meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is monkeyish?
Monkeyish is an adjective.

Words near monkeyish in the dictionary

  1. monkeyhood
  2. monkeying
  3. monkeying about
  4. monkeying around
  5. monkeying up
  6. monkeyish
  7. monkeyishly
  8. monkeyishness
  9. monkeyism
  10. monkeyisms
  11. monkeykind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monkeyish (page history and authors); monkeyish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monkeyish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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