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novelettish

novelettish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a novelette.

Adjective

novelettish (comparative more novelettish, superlative most novelettish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
    • Inevitably the period laid a few eggs, of which the most evil-smelling were […] three unfortunate views on war: […] novelettish “Five Branded Women”; […]1960 December 23, “Looking Back on 1960”, in Middlesex County Times and West Middlesex Gazette, Ealing edition, number 5882, Ealing, London, →OCLC, page 9, column 5

Forms of novelettish

comparativemore novelettish
superlativemost novelettish

Origin of novelettish

From novelette + -ish.

Questions about novelettish

What does novelettish mean?
Novelettish means resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
What part of speech is novelettish?
Novelettish is an adjective.

Words near novelettish in the dictionary

  1. novelet
  2. Noveleta
  3. novelets
  4. novelette
  5. novelettes
  6. novelettish
  7. novelettist
  8. novelettists
  9. noveletty
  10. novelisation
  11. novelisations

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