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trainlike

trainlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a train (rail vehicle).

Adjective

trainlike (comparative more trainlike, superlative most trainlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a train (rail vehicle).
    • It has regular ports of call and sails with almost trainlike regularity.1936, James Christopher Healey, Foc's'le and glory-hole: a study of the merchant seaman and his occupation

Forms of trainlike

comparativemore trainlike
superlativemost trainlike

Origin of trainlike

From train + -like.

Questions about trainlike

What does trainlike mean?
Trainlike means resembling or characteristic of a train (rail vehicle).
What part of speech is trainlike?
Trainlike is an adjective.

Words near trainlike in the dictionary

  1. training wheel
  2. training wheels
  3. trainings
  4. trainless
  5. trainlessness
  6. trainlike
  7. trainload
  8. trainloads
  9. trainman
  10. trainmaster
  11. trainmasters

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