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paisleylike

paisleylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of paisley.

Adjective

paisleylike (comparative more paisleylike, superlative most paisleylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of paisley.
    • Finally, in “#30,” of 1968, a loose paisleylike scheme emerges in richly off-key yet regimented tones: two contrasting shades each of earth red, brown and green with constant input from lavender and light blue.2007 August 3, Roberta Smith, “Kandy-Colored Dot-Flake Streamline Maverick”, in New York Times

Forms of paisleylike

comparativemore paisleylike
superlativemost paisleylike

Origin of paisleylike

From paisley + -like.

Questions about paisleylike

What does paisleylike mean?
Paisleylike means resembling or characteristic of paisley.
What part of speech is paisleylike?
Paisleylike is an adjective.

Words near paisleylike in the dictionary

  1. Paisley Underground
  2. paisleyed
  3. Paisleyism
  4. Paisleyite
  5. Paisleyites
  6. paisleylike
  7. paisleys
  8. Pait
  9. Paitan
  10. Paitan-Panoypoy
  11. Paits

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