Word.ws English Dictionary

planelike

planelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a geometrical plane.

Adjective

planelike (comparative more planelike, superlative most planelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a geometrical plane.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of an aeroplane.
    • (The cover of “Underworld,” to name one uncanny example, had a planelike bird flying toward the twin towers.)2007 June 3, Sarah Towers, “Shattered”, in New York Times

Forms of planelike

comparativemore planelike
superlativemost planelike

Origin of planelike

From plane + -like.

Questions about planelike

What does planelike mean?
Planelike means resembling or characteristic of a geometrical plane.
What part of speech is planelike?
Planelike is an adjective.

Words near planelike in the dictionary

  1. planectomy
  2. planed
  3. planeful
  4. planefuls
  5. planeitis
  6. planelike
  7. planeload
  8. planeloads
  9. planemaker
  10. planemakers
  11. planemo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: planelike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “planelike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/planelike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.