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storylike

storylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a story.

Adjective

storylike (comparative more storylike, superlative most storylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a story.
    • The story-like prose poetry of the final childhood memory sections.1982 February 6, Andrea Loewenstein, “Poetry on the Edges”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 9
    • If this is what real people and societies are like, then it may be appropriate for historians to represent their subjects' lives in storylike form.1992, Jonathan Gorman, Understanding history, page 65

Forms of storylike

comparativemore storylike
superlativemost storylike

Origin of storylike

From story + -like.

Questions about storylike

What does storylike mean?
Storylike means resembling or characteristic of a story.
What part of speech is storylike?
Storylike is an adjective.

Words near storylike in the dictionary

  1. storyless
  2. storylessly
  3. storylessness
  4. storylet
  5. storylets
  6. storylike
  7. storyline
  8. storyliner
  9. storyliners
  10. storylines
  11. storylining

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