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tanklike

tanklike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tank (military vehicle).

Adjective

tanklike (comparative more tanklike, superlative most tanklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tank (military vehicle).
    • The mechanical digger had tanklike treads.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a tank (container).
    • Yes, Rex had “got that,” and the old man was a great sport, but when he said a thing he meant it—otherwise Rex would never have been moving slowly up and down like a large fish in the dim green waters of this vast tanklike hall.2013, Dennis Wheatley, Three Inquisitive People

Forms of tanklike

comparativemore tanklike
superlativemost tanklike

Origin of tanklike

From tank + -like.

Questions about tanklike

What does tanklike mean?
Tanklike means resembling or characteristic of a tank (military vehicle).
What part of speech is tanklike?
Tanklike is an adjective.

Words near tanklike in the dictionary

  1. tankist
  2. tankists
  3. tankless
  4. tanklet
  5. tanklets
  6. tanklike
  7. tankmaker
  8. tankmakers
  9. tankmaking
  10. tankman
  11. tankmate

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