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novelistic

novelistic adjective: having characteristics of a novel.

Adjective

novelistic (comparative more novelistic, superlative most novelistic)

  1. Having characteristics of a novel.

Forms of novelistic

comparativemore novelistic
superlativemost novelistic

Origin of novelistic

From novelist + -ic.

Words formed from novelistic

Questions about novelistic

What does novelistic mean?
Novelistic means having characteristics of a novel.
What part of speech is novelistic?
Novelistic is an adjective.

Words near novelistic in the dictionary

  1. novelish
  2. novelising
  3. novelism
  4. novelisms
  5. novelist
  6. novelistic
  7. novelistically
  8. novelists
  9. novelization
  10. novelizations
  11. novelize

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