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phoenixlike

phoenixlike adjective: resembling a phoenix, especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.

Adjective

phoenixlike (comparative more phoenixlike, superlative most phoenixlike)

  1. Resembling a phoenix, especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.
    • Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 173
    • Weaving from tree to tree in an obstacle-course marathon that she could only lose, in a dream-strange showdown amont the phoenixes from which she could not rise phoenixlike if she were killed, Jane felt a tugging at her right sleeve.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 46

Forms of phoenixlike

comparativemore phoenixlike
superlativemost phoenixlike

Origin of phoenixlike

From phoenix + -like.

Questions about phoenixlike

What does phoenixlike mean?
Phoenixlike means resembling a phoenix, especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.
What part of speech is phoenixlike?
Phoenixlike is an adjective.

Words near phoenixlike in the dictionary

  1. phoenixes
  2. phoenixing
  3. phoenixings
  4. phoenixism
  5. phoenixity
  6. phoenixlike
  7. Phoenixville
  8. phoetal
  9. phoeti
  10. phoetus
  11. phoetuses

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