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slaglike

slaglike adjective: resembling or characteristic of slag.

Adjective

slaglike (comparative more slaglike, superlative most slaglike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of slag.
    • As they moved through the grayness Meg caught an occasional glimpse of slaglike rocks, but there were no traces of trees or bushes, nothing but flat ground under their feet, no sign of any vegetation at all.1962, Madeleine L’Engle, “The Tesseract”, in A Wrinkle in Time, New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, 1973 printing, →ISBN, page 83

Forms of slaglike

comparativemore slaglike
superlativemost slaglike

Origin of slaglike

From slag + -like.

Questions about slaglike

What does slaglike mean?
Slaglike means resembling or characteristic of slag.
What part of speech is slaglike?
Slaglike is an adjective.

Words near slaglike in the dictionary

  1. SLAGIATT
  2. Slagle
  3. Slagles
  4. slagless
  5. slaglessness
  6. slaglike
  7. Slagnäs
  8. slags
  9. slags off
  10. Slagter
  11. Slagters

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