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pillarlike

pillarlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a pillar.

Adjective

pillarlike (comparative more pillarlike, superlative most pillarlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a pillar.
    • At another, now upside down but still pillarlike, he makes a further such display, tapping his foot as if he had time to kill, and all this were mere ennui.2009 September 12, Alastair Macaulay, “One Man’s Wordless Battle With Claustrophobia”, in New York Times

Forms of pillarlike

comparativemore pillarlike
superlativemost pillarlike

Origin of pillarlike

From pillar + -like.

Questions about pillarlike

What does pillarlike mean?
Pillarlike means resembling or characteristic of a pillar.
What part of speech is pillarlike?
Pillarlike is an adjective.

Words near pillarlike in the dictionary

  1. pillarizes
  2. pillarizing
  3. pillarless
  4. pillarlet
  5. pillarlets
  6. pillarlike
  7. pillars
  8. pillars of fire
  9. pillars of flame
  10. Pillars of Hercules
  11. pillars of society

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