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mutantlike

mutantlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mutant.

Adjective

mutantlike (comparative more mutantlike, superlative most mutantlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mutant.
    • The images of a mutantlike head and amputated torso featured on the front and back covers of this book, suggest identities that have altered their form for the worse.2013 April 14, Stephen Mansfield, “An era of Tokyo art worth another look”, in The Japan Times
    • As fishwomen swam past and mutantlike children scuttled across the ceiling, there was no gentle narrator to chime in with the equivalent of “What is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays.”2022 February 14, Eowyn Ivey, “Marlon James’s Moon Witch Tells Her Side of a Haunting Story”, in The New York Times

Forms of mutantlike

comparativemore mutantlike
superlativemost mutantlike

Origin of mutantlike

From mutant + -like.

Questions about mutantlike

What does mutantlike mean?
Mutantlike means resembling or characteristic of a mutant.
What part of speech is mutantlike?
Mutantlike is an adjective.

Words near mutantlike in the dictionary

  1. mutant
  2. mutant disco
  3. mutant protein
  4. mutant proteins
  5. mutantkind
  6. mutantlike
  7. mutants
  8. Mutare
  9. mutarotase
  10. mutarotases
  11. mutarotate

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