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swamplike

swamplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a swamp.

Adjective

swamplike (comparative more swamplike, superlative most swamplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a swamp.
    • Part of the answer came quickly: football players lost so much fluid in sweat in swamplike Florida that they had none left to form urine.2007 November 28, Douglas Martin, “J. Robert Cade, the Inventor of Gatorade, Dies at 80”, in New York Times

Forms of swamplike

comparativemore swamplike
superlativemost swamplike

Origin of swamplike

From swamp + -like.

Questions about swamplike

What does swamplike mean?
Swamplike means resembling or characteristic of a swamp.
What part of speech is swamplike?
Swamplike is an adjective.

Words near swamplike in the dictionary

  1. swamplands
  2. swamplands lashtail
  3. swamplands lashtails
  4. swampless
  5. swamplife
  6. swamplike
  7. swampprivet
  8. swampprivets
  9. swamps
  10. swamps out
  11. Swampscott

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