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shiplike

shiplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a ship.

Adjective

shiplike (comparative more shiplike, superlative most shiplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ship.
    • Mr. Ando’s maritime museum design borrows from the maritime history of the emirates, with a reflective surface merging sea and land and a shiplike interior with floating decks.2007 February 1, Hassan Fattah, “Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World”, in New York Times

Forms of shiplike

comparativemore shiplike
superlativemost shiplike

Origin of shiplike

From ship + -like.

Words formed from shiplike

Questions about shiplike

What does shiplike mean?
Shiplike means resembling or characteristic of a ship.
What part of speech is shiplike?
Shiplike is an adjective.

Words near shiplike in the dictionary

  1. Shipley
  2. shiplier
  3. shipliest
  4. shiplift
  5. shiplifts
  6. shiplike
  7. shipling
  8. shiplings
  9. shipload
  10. shiploader
  11. shiploaders

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