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prisonerlike

prisonerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.

Adjective

prisonerlike (comparative more prisonerlike, superlative most prisonerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.
    • As is revealed in her dream, she needs to be saved from the repressed, prisonerlike existence she endures at the top of the pillar...1982, Harry Gilbert Carlson, Strindberg and the poetry of myth

Forms of prisonerlike

comparativemore prisonerlike
superlativemost prisonerlike

Origin of prisonerlike

From prisoner + -like.

Questions about prisonerlike

What does prisonerlike mean?
Prisonerlike means resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.
What part of speech is prisonerlike?
Prisonerlike is an adjective.

Words near prisonerlike in the dictionary

  1. prisoner's base
  2. prisoner's cinema
  3. prisoner's friend
  4. prisoner-of-war camp
  5. prisoner-of-war camps
  6. prisonerlike
  7. prisoners
  8. prisoners at large
  9. prisoners of conscience
  10. prisoners of war
  11. prisoners' bars

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