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saucerlike

saucerlike adjective: resembling a saucer.

Adjective

saucerlike (comparative more saucerlike, superlative most saucerlike)

  1. Resembling a saucer.
    • Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171

Forms of saucerlike

comparativemore saucerlike
superlativemost saucerlike

Origin of saucerlike

From saucer + -like.

Questions about saucerlike

What does saucerlike mean?
Saucerlike means resembling a saucer.
What part of speech is saucerlike?
Saucerlike is an adjective.

Words near saucerlike in the dictionary

  1. saucerize
  2. saucerized
  3. saucerizes
  4. saucerizing
  5. saucerless
  6. saucerlike
  7. saucerman
  8. saucermen
  9. saucers
  10. saucersful
  11. saucery

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