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sun-like

sun-like is the alternative form of sunlike.

Meaning of sunlike

Adjective

sunlike (comparative more sunlike, superlative most sunlike)

  1. Like a sun.
    • We look for her that sunlike stood / Upon the forehead of our day […]1887, George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life
  2. Resembling the Sun.
    • a sunlike star

Adjective capitalized: Sun-like

Sun-like (comparative more Sun-like, superlative most Sun-like)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of sunlike (like our Sun)

Forms of sun-like

comparativemore sun-like
superlativemost sun-like
comparativemore Sun-like
superlativemost Sun-like

Questions about sun-like

What is sun-like the alternative form of?
Sun-like is the alternative form of sunlike.
What part of speech is sun-like?
Sun-like is an adjective.

Words near sun-like in the dictionary

  1. sun-god
  2. sun-gods
  3. sun-grebe
  4. sun-grebes
  5. sun-kissed
  6. sun-like
  7. sun-lounger
  8. sun-parlor
  9. sun-parlors
  10. sun-shine
  11. sun-shot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sun-like (page history and authors); Sun-like (page history and authors); sunlike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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