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quicksandlike

quicksandlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of quicksand.

Adjective

quicksandlike (comparative more quicksandlike, superlative most quicksandlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of quicksand.
    • Even though the beavers had moved on, the silt remained as a deep, inviting, wet, and murky mass of quicksandlike mud.2004, Jim Hohnberger, Come to the Quiet, page 85

Forms of quicksandlike

comparativemore quicksandlike
superlativemost quicksandlike

Origin of quicksandlike

From quicksand + -like.

Questions about quicksandlike

What does quicksandlike mean?
Quicksandlike means resembling or characteristic of quicksand.
What part of speech is quicksandlike?
Quicksandlike is an adjective.

Words near quicksandlike in the dictionary

  1. quickness
  2. quicknesses
  3. quickplay
  4. quicks
  5. quicksand
  6. quicksandlike
  7. quicksands
  8. quicksandy
  9. quicksave
  10. quicksaved
  11. quicksaves

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