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tortoise-like

tortoise-like is the alternative form of tortoiselike.

Meaning of tortoiselike

Adjective

tortoiselike (comparative more tortoiselike, superlative most tortoiselike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tortoise; thus frequently slow or unhurried
    • With a bland touch and tortoiselike patience, he recorded arrangements of one or more bodies in drowsy repose surrounded by rugs, blankets and furniture.2009 January 7, Ken Johnson, “It Is What It Is: Portraits of the Human Figure”, in New York Times

Forms of tortoise-like

comparativemore tortoise-like
superlativemost tortoise-like

Origin of tortoise-like

From tortoise + -like.

Questions about tortoise-like

What is tortoise-like the alternative form of?
Tortoise-like is the alternative form of tortoiselike.

Words near tortoise-like in the dictionary

  1. Tortoise Islands
  2. tortoise shell
  3. tortoise shell bracket
  4. tortoise shell brackets
  5. tortoise shells
  6. tortoise-like
  7. tortoise-shell
  8. tortoise-shell bamboo
  9. tortoise-shell bamboos
  10. tortoise-shells
  11. tortoiselike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tortoise-like (page history and authors); tortoiselike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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