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tricklike

tricklike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a trick.

Adjective

tricklike (comparative more tricklike, superlative most tricklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trick.
    • The anecdotes they coin, whether in half-hearted travelogues or in cynical Benetton catalogues, invoke that developmental schema to recapitulate the West's erstwhile commodity enchantment through its tricklike discovery in the past-as-present eyes of the enchanted Other.2000, Paul Magee, From Here to Tierra Del Fuego, page 38

Forms of tricklike

comparativemore tricklike
superlativemost tricklike

Origin of tricklike

From trick + -like.

Questions about tricklike

What does tricklike mean?
Tricklike means resembling or characteristic of a trick.
What part of speech is tricklike?
Tricklike is an adjective.

Words near tricklike in the dictionary

  1. tricklesome
  2. trickless
  3. tricklet
  4. trickleth
  5. tricklets
  6. tricklike
  7. trickling
  8. trickling down
  9. tricklingly
  10. tricklings
  11. tricklining

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