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sarcophaguslike

sarcophaguslike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.

Adjective

sarcophaguslike (comparative more sarcophaguslike, superlative most sarcophaguslike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.
    • From the mail-order car hoods that he first started painting and hanging in the late 1980s to evoke Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko (“They were really minimal, and I don’t think anybody got them,” he said), Mr. Prince progressed to appropriating heftier chunks of automotive anatomy, making...2007 September 23, Randy Kennedy, “The Duchamp of the Muscle Car”, in New York Times

Forms of sarcophaguslike

comparativemore sarcophaguslike
superlativemost sarcophaguslike

Origin of sarcophaguslike

From sarcophagus + -like.

Questions about sarcophaguslike

What does sarcophaguslike mean?
Sarcophaguslike means resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.
What part of speech is sarcophaguslike?
Sarcophaguslike is an adjective.

Words near sarcophaguslike in the dictionary

  1. sarcophagous
  2. sarcophagus
  3. sarcophagused
  4. sarcophaguses
  5. sarcophagusing
  6. sarcophaguslike
  7. sarcophagussed
  8. sarcophagusses
  9. sarcophagy
  10. sarcophile
  11. sarcophiles

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