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rotelike

rotelike adjective: like a rote, repetitious.

Adjective

rotelike (comparative more rotelike, superlative most rotelike)

  1. Like a rote, repetitious.
    • Their hazy, flickering surfaces mix bits of history (the space race, the civil rights movement, the cold war) with eruptions of weirdly rotelike graphic finesse — the windshield-wiper strokes with which Rauschenberg brought his images to the surface.2007 March 16, The New York Times, “Art Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of rotelike

comparativemore rotelike
superlativemost rotelike

Origin of rotelike

From rote + -like.

Questions about rotelike

What does rotelike mean?
Rotelike means like a rote, repetitious.
What part of speech is rotelike?
Rotelike is an adjective.

Words near rotelike in the dictionary

  1. rotchies
  2. rote
  3. Rote boobook
  4. Rote boobooks
  5. roted
  6. rotelike
  7. rotella
  8. Rotellas
  9. rotelle
  10. rotely
  11. Rotenberg

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