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tornadolike

tornadolike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tornado.

Adjective

tornadolike (comparative more tornadolike, superlative most tornadolike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tornado.
    • In recent seasons they have included smaller turnouts on the often boggy lawn and the loss of some 30 huge trees on festival properties to a freak wall of tornadolike wind.2009 July 13, James R. Oestreich, “Levine Leads Young Musicians Into Wagnerian Territory”, in New York Times

Forms of tornadolike

comparativemore tornadolike
superlativemost tornadolike

Origin of tornadolike

From tornado + -like.

Questions about tornadolike

What does tornadolike mean?
Tornadolike means resembling or characteristic of a tornado.
What part of speech is tornadolike?
Tornadolike is an adjective.

Words near tornadolike in the dictionary

  1. tornadoes
  2. tornadoesque
  3. tornadogeneses
  4. tornadogenesis
  5. tornadoing
  6. tornadolike
  7. tornadoproof
  8. tornados
  9. Tornagrain
  10. tornal
  11. tornaria

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