Word.ws English Dictionary

rugbylike

rugbylike adjective: similar to or reminiscent of rugby.

Adjective

rugbylike (comparative more rugbylike, superlative most rugbylike)

  1. Similar to or reminiscent of rugby.
    • (already the rugbylike form of the game was [developing])2004, Robert Cowley, What Ifs? Of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, Penguin, →ISBN
    • But perhaps our example of the heart that both pumps blood and is employed in a rugbylike game can still be of help.2007, Paul R. DeHart, Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 60

Forms of rugbylike

comparativemore rugbylike
superlativemost rugbylike
alternative formrugby-like

Origin of rugbylike

From rugby + -like.

Questions about rugbylike

What does rugbylike mean?
Rugbylike means similar to or reminiscent of rugby.
What part of speech is rugbylike?
Rugbylike is an adjective.

Words near rugbylike in the dictionary

  1. Rugbyan
  2. Rugbyans
  3. rugbying
  4. rugbyist
  5. rugbyists
  6. rugbylike
  7. Rugbœan
  8. Ruge
  9. rugelach
  10. rugelachs
  11. Rugeley

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rugbylike (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: “rugbylike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rugbylike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.