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trancelike

trancelike adjective: having the characteristics of a trance.

Adjective

trancelike (comparative more trancelike, superlative most trancelike)

  1. Having the characteristics of a trance.
    • He’d been so terrified by the look on his father’s face that he gasped, breaking the trancelike moment.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 159

Forms of trancelike

comparativemore trancelike
superlativemost trancelike

Origin of trancelike

From trance + -like.

Questions about trancelike

What does trancelike mean?
Trancelike means having the characteristics of a trance.
What part of speech is trancelike?
Trancelike is an adjective.

Words near trancelike in the dictionary

  1. trancecore
  2. tranced
  3. tranced out
  4. trancedly
  5. tranceful
  6. trancelike
  7. trancer
  8. trancers
  9. trances
  10. trances out
  11. trancester

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