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tokenish

tokenish adjective: resembling a token; symbolic; (by extension) insignificant; nominal.

Adjective

tokenish (comparative more tokenish, superlative most tokenish)

  1. Resembling a token; symbolic; (by extension) insignificant; nominal.
    • a tokenish gesture

Forms of tokenish

comparativemore tokenish
superlativemost tokenish

Origin of tokenish

From token + -ish.

Questions about tokenish

What does tokenish mean?
Tokenish means resembling a token; symbolic; (by extension) insignificant; nominal.
What part of speech is tokenish?
Tokenish is an adjective.

Words near tokenish in the dictionary

  1. tokenise
  2. tokenised
  3. tokeniser
  4. tokenisers
  5. tokenises
  6. tokenish
  7. tokenising
  8. tokenism
  9. tokenisms
  10. tokenist
  11. tokenistic

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