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puppylike

puppylike adjective: resembling a puppy.

Adjective

puppylike (comparative more puppylike, superlative most puppylike)

  1. Resembling a puppy.
    • The image is of the young boy next door: sad, thoughtful, pretty, and puppylike. Lyrically his songs are about being let down and stood up, about loneliness...1990, Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word
    • The dog's appearance and behavior have been strongly influenced by a pervasive process of neoteny, causing it to remain more puppylike as an adult...2001, Steven R Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training

Forms of puppylike

comparativemore puppylike
superlativemost puppylike

Origin of puppylike

From puppy + -like.

Questions about puppylike

What does puppylike mean?
Puppylike means resembling a puppy.
What part of speech is puppylike?
Puppylike is an adjective.

Words near puppylike in the dictionary

  1. puppyish
  2. puppyishly
  3. puppyism
  4. puppyisms
  5. puppyless
  6. puppylike
  7. puppyplay
  8. puppysat
  9. puppyship
  10. puppyships
  11. puppysit

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