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tenantlike

tenantlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tenant.

Adjective

tenantlike (comparative more tenantlike, superlative most tenantlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tenant.
    • ...it was the duty of the defendant, as such tenant, to work and manage the said beds, veins, seams and mines, in a proper and tenantlike manner...1883, Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto, The mining reports

Forms of tenantlike

comparativemore tenantlike
superlativemost tenantlike

Origin of tenantlike

From tenant + -like.

Questions about tenantlike

What does tenantlike mean?
Tenantlike means resembling or characteristic of a tenant.
What part of speech is tenantlike?
Tenantlike is an adjective.

Words near tenantlike in the dictionary

  1. tenanted
  2. tenanting
  3. tenantism
  4. tenantless
  5. tenantlessness
  6. tenantlike
  7. tenantries
  8. tenantry
  9. tenantry acre
  10. tenantry acres
  11. tenants

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