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tarnlike

tarnlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tarn.

Adjective

tarnlike (comparative more tarnlike, superlative most tarnlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tarn.
    • Pnin suggested leaving the luggage and walking one block—if Victor was not afraid of the rain (it was pouring hard, and the asphalt glistened in the darkness, tarnlike, under large, noisy trees).1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.8, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 104

Forms of tarnlike

comparativemore tarnlike
superlativemost tarnlike

Origin of tarnlike

From tarn + -like.

Questions about tarnlike

What does tarnlike mean?
Tarnlike means resembling or characteristic of a tarn.
What part of speech is tarnlike?
Tarnlike is an adjective.

Words near tarnlike in the dictionary

  1. tarnishings
  2. tarnishment
  3. tarnishments
  4. tarnishproof
  5. tarnisht
  6. tarnlike
  7. Tarnobrzeg
  8. Tarnook
  9. Tarnovski
  10. Tarnovsky
  11. Tarnowski

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