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uncorpselike

uncorpselike adjective: not corpselike.

Adjective

uncorpselike (comparative more uncorpselike, superlative most uncorpselike)

  1. Not corpselike.
    • At first light, around the time that the body of the kagan — a body that had already begun to manifest decidedly uncorpselike signs of movement — was being carried by an ill-assorted trio into a springhouse near a little-used gate of the Palace through which corpses and those who tended to them...2007 April 29, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times

Forms of uncorpselike

comparativemore uncorpselike
superlativemost uncorpselike

Origin of uncorpselike

From un- + corpselike.

Questions about uncorpselike

What does uncorpselike mean?
Uncorpselike means not corpselike.
What part of speech is uncorpselike?
Uncorpselike is an adjective.

Words near uncorpselike in the dictionary

  1. uncoronetted
  2. uncorporal
  3. uncorporatized
  4. uncorporeal
  5. uncorporeality
  6. uncorpselike
  7. uncorpulent
  8. uncorraled
  9. uncorralled
  10. uncorrect
  11. uncorrectability

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