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obelisklike

obelisklike adjective: resembling an obelisk.

Adjective

obelisklike (comparative more obelisklike, superlative most obelisklike)

  1. Resembling an obelisk.
    • She just happens to have both in her dressing room, a personalized nook she has decorated with an Oriental theme: hanging paper lanterns, tiny colored lights and a pricey obelisklike lamp from a splurge downtown at the Pearl River shop.2008 June 20, Robin Finn, “When Brush With Broadway Ends, She’ll Play On”, in New York Times

Forms of obelisklike

comparativemore obelisklike
superlativemost obelisklike

Origin of obelisklike

From obelisk + -like.

Questions about obelisklike

What does obelisklike mean?
Obelisklike means resembling an obelisk.
What part of speech is obelisklike?
Obelisklike is an adjective.

Words near obelisklike in the dictionary

  1. obelising
  2. obelisk
  3. obelisked
  4. obeliskine
  5. obelisking
  6. obelisklike
  7. obeliskoid
  8. obelisks
  9. obelism
  10. obelisms
  11. obelize

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