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quietlike

quietlike adjective: indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.

Adjective

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

  1. Indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.
    • Me, no, wouldn't hurt nobody, but where the fuck was I? Guess I wasn't so much in school, this serene quietlike country setting, as sitting on the spare tire of an open gun jeep manning an M-60 machine gun, patrolling a mountain side, [...]2007, Richard Boes, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive

Adverb

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

  1. In a quiet manner; quietly.
    • "[…] I can watch her quietlike... like a man."2009, John Aubrey Anderson, Abiding Darkness

Forms of quietlike

Adjective
comparativemore quietlike
superlativemost quietlike
Adverb
comparativemore quietlike
superlativemost quietlike

Origin of quietlike

From quiet + -like.

Questions about quietlike

What does quietlike mean?
Quietlike means indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.
What part of speech is quietlike?
Quietlike can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near quietlike in the dictionary

  1. quietists
  2. quietive
  3. quietives
  4. quietless
  5. quietlier
  6. quietlike
  7. quietly
  8. quietness
  9. quietnesses
  10. quiets
  11. quiets down

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