Word.ws English Dictionary

rubberlike

rubberlike adjective: having the characteristics of rubber.

Adjective

rubberlike (comparative more rubberlike, superlative most rubberlike)

  1. Having the characteristics of rubber.
    • In the early 1940's, Mr. McIntire said, he was trying to develop a rubberlike polymer to be used as a flexible insulator.1996 April 2, Julia Campbell, “Ray McIntire, 77, Dow Engineer And the Inventor Of Styrofoam”, in The New York Times

Forms of rubberlike

comparativemore rubberlike
superlativemost rubberlike

Origin of rubberlike

From rubber + -like.

Questions about rubberlike

What does rubberlike mean?
Rubberlike means having the characteristics of rubber.
What part of speech is rubberlike?
Rubberlike is an adjective.

Words near rubberlike in the dictionary

  1. rubberizer
  2. rubberizers
  3. rubberizes
  4. rubberizing
  5. rubberless
  6. rubberlike
  7. rubberneck
  8. rubberneck bus
  9. rubberneck buses
  10. rubberneck busses
  11. rubbernecked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rubberlike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rubberlike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rubberlike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.