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undertakerly

undertakerly adjective: resembling or characteristic of an undertaker (funeral director).

Adjective

undertakerly (comparative more undertakerly, superlative most undertakerly)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an undertaker (funeral director).
    • The word with its undertakerly associations revived all my former alarm.1911, Luis Coloma, A True Hildago, page 291

Forms of undertakerly

comparativemore undertakerly
superlativemost undertakerly

Origin of undertakerly

From undertaker + -ly.

Questions about undertakerly

What does undertakerly mean?
Undertakerly means resembling or characteristic of an undertaker (funeral director).
What part of speech is undertakerly?
Undertakerly is an adjective.

Words near undertakerly in the dictionary

  1. undertaken
  2. undertaker
  3. undertaker's
  4. undertakerish
  5. undertakerlike
  6. undertakerly
  7. undertakers
  8. undertakery
  9. undertakes
  10. undertakest
  11. undertaketh

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