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nounlike

nounlike adjective: resembling a noun, having nounal characteristics.

Adjective

nounlike (comparative more nounlike, superlative most nounlike)

  1. Resembling a noun, having nounal characteristics.
    • A number of both lexemes and word forms seem to be located within the two endpoints of this scale, and can thus be identified only as “more nounlike, less adjectivelike” or “less nounlike, more adjectivelike”.2022 June 16, Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári, “Between adjective and noun”, in Acta Linguistica Academica, volume 69, number 2, →DOI, pages 188-205

Forms of nounlike

comparativemore nounlike
superlativemost nounlike

Origin of nounlike

From noun + -like.

Questions about nounlike

What does nounlike mean?
Nounlike means resembling a noun, having nounal characteristics.
What part of speech is nounlike?
Nounlike is an adjective.

Words near nounlike in the dictionary

  1. nounized
  2. nounizes
  3. nounizing
  4. nounless
  5. nounlessness
  6. nounlike
  7. nounness
  8. nouns
  9. nouns adjunct
  10. nouns numeral
  11. nouns of assemblage

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