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torchlike

torchlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a torch.

Adjective

torchlike (comparative more torchlike, superlative most torchlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a torch.
    • The flames illuminated all of Frenchtown and caused great, shifting shadows and in the hot firelight her features became torchlike, flames dancing in her eyes, her hair down and spread wide across her shoulders and her cheekbones turned red and even her shadow behind her seeming to grow with her...2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 27, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 142

Forms of torchlike

comparativemore torchlike
superlativemost torchlike

Origin of torchlike

From torch + -like.

Questions about torchlike

What does torchlike mean?
Torchlike means resembling or characteristic of a torch.
What part of speech is torchlike?
Torchlike is an adjective.

Words near torchlike in the dictionary

  1. torchières
  2. torchless
  3. torchlight
  4. torchlighted
  5. torchlights
  6. torchlike
  7. torchlit
  8. torchmaker
  9. torchmakers
  10. torchmaking
  11. torchman

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