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sleeplike

sleeplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of sleep.

Adjective

sleeplike (comparative more sleeplike, superlative most sleeplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of sleep.
    • One well-known and well-studied sleeplike state is called nyctinasty, or night movement.2007 January 2, C. Claiborne Ray, “Sleeping Vines”, in New York Times

Forms of sleeplike

comparativemore sleeplike
superlativemost sleeplike

Origin of sleeplike

From sleep + -like.

Questions about sleeplike

What does sleeplike mean?
Sleeplike means resembling or characteristic of sleep.
What part of speech is sleeplike?
Sleeplike is an adjective.

Words near sleeplike in the dictionary

  1. sleepish
  2. sleepless
  3. sleeplessly
  4. sleeplessness
  5. sleeplessnesses
  6. sleeplike
  7. sleepmarch
  8. sleepmarken
  9. sleepmaxx
  10. sleepmaxxed
  11. sleepmaxxes

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