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ovenlike

ovenlike adjective: resembling an oven, especially in shape.

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 ovenlike

comparativemore ovenlike
superlativemost ovenlike
alternative formoven-like

Origin of ovenlike

From oven + -like.

Questions about ovenlike

What does ovenlike mean?
Ovenlike means resembling an oven, especially in shape.
What part of speech is ovenlike?
Ovenlike is an adjective.

Words near ovenlike in the dictionary

  1. ovenettes
  2. ovenful
  3. ovenfuls
  4. ovening
  5. ovenless
  6. ovenlike
  7. ovenproof
  8. ovens
  9. ovensful
  10. Ovenstone
  11. Ovenstones

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