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reviewish

reviewish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a review (critical evaluation).

Adjective

reviewish (comparative more reviewish, superlative most reviewish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a review (critical evaluation).
    • The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.1838, Richard Hurrell Froude, John Henry Newman, John Keble, Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude, page 416

Forms of reviewish

comparativemore reviewish
superlativemost reviewish

Origin of reviewish

From review + -ish.

Questions about reviewish

What does reviewish mean?
Reviewish means resembling or characteristic of a review (critical evaluation).
What part of speech is reviewish?
Reviewish is an adjective.

Words near reviewish in the dictionary

  1. reviewers
  2. reviewest
  3. revieweth
  4. reviewing
  5. reviewings
  6. reviewish
  7. reviewless
  8. reviews
  9. reviewuate
  10. Revigny-sur-Ornain
  11. revigorate

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