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stagelike

stagelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed).

Adjective

stagelike (comparative more stagelike, superlative most stagelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed).
  2. proceeding through discrete stages; often used of developmental processes.
    • Contra Piaget, I argue that:(1) development rarely involves stagelike domain-general change.1997, Bonatti et al., "Precis of beyond modularity," Behavioral and Brain Science 20(2), 351-360

Forms of stagelike

comparativemore stagelike
superlativemost stagelike

Origin of stagelike

From stage + -like.

Questions about stagelike

What does stagelike mean?
Stagelike means resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed).
What part of speech is stagelike?
Stagelike is an adjective.

Words near stagelike in the dictionary

  1. stagehouses
  2. Stageira
  3. stageland
  4. stageless
  5. stagelessness
  6. stagelike
  7. stageline
  8. stagelines
  9. stagely
  10. stageman
  11. stagemanship

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