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oven-like

oven-like is the alternative form of ovenlike.

Meaning of ovenlike

Adjective

ovenlike (comparative more ovenlike, superlative most ovenlike)

  1. Resembling an oven, especially in shape
    • The massive bricks and low arches of this hall make it dungeonlike, even ovenlike.1988 January 29, Kitry Krause, “Casting Out the Nazis”, in Chicago Reader
  2. Resembling the temperature inside a hot oven.

Forms of oven-like

comparativemore oven-like
superlativemost oven-like

Origin of oven-like

From oven + -like.

Questions about oven-like

What is oven-like the alternative form of?
Oven-like is the alternative form of ovenlike.

Words near oven-like in the dictionary

  1. oven rings
  2. oven tit
  3. oven tits
  4. oven-dodger
  5. oven-dodgers
  6. oven-like
  7. oven-proof
  8. oven-ready
  9. ovenable
  10. ovenbird
  11. ovenbirds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oven-like (page history and authors); ovenlike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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