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pillowlike

pillowlike adjective: resembling a pillow.

Adjective

pillowlike (comparative more pillowlike, superlative most pillowlike)

  1. Resembling a pillow.
    • This is most publicly evident in Mr. Kapoor’s wildly popular “Cloud Gate,” an enormous, shiny, pillowlike archway (known as the Bean) at Millennium Park in Chicago.2008 May 30, Roberta Smith, “Sculptor as Magician”, in New York Times

Forms of pillowlike

comparativemore pillowlike
superlativemost pillowlike

Origin of pillowlike

From pillow + -like.

Questions about pillowlike

What does pillowlike mean?
Pillowlike means resembling a pillow.
What part of speech is pillowlike?
Pillowlike is an adjective.

Words near pillowlike in the dictionary

  1. pillowfuls
  2. pillowiness
  3. pillowing
  4. pillowings
  5. pillowless
  6. pillowlike
  7. pillows
  8. pillowsful
  9. pillowside
  10. pillowslip
  11. pillowslips

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