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science-fictionlike

science-fictionlike adjective: resembling science fiction.

Adjective

science-fictionlike (comparative more science-fictionlike, superlative most science-fictionlike)

  1. Resembling science fiction.
    • This radical, science-fictionlike therapy differs sharply from the more established type of immunotherapy, developed by other researchers. Those off-the-shelf drugs, known as checkpoint inhibitors, release a molecular brake on the immune system, freeing it to fight the cancer much as it fights...2016 August 1, Andrew Pollack, “Setting the Body's 'Serial Killers' Loose on Cancer”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18...

Synonyms of science-fictionlike

Forms of science-fictionlike

comparativemore science-fictionlike
superlativemost science-fictionlike

Origin of science-fictionlike

From science fiction + -like.

Questions about science-fictionlike

What does science-fictionlike mean?
Science-fictionlike means resembling science fiction.
What part of speech is science-fictionlike?
Science-fictionlike is an adjective.

Words near science-fictionlike in the dictionary

  1. science-fictioneer
  2. science-fictioneers
  3. science-fictioner
  4. science-fictioners
  5. science-fictionish
  6. science-fictionlike
  7. science-fictions
  8. science-fictiony
  9. science-y
  10. scienced
  11. scienced up

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