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ungardenlike

ungardenlike adjective: unlike a garden.

Adjective

ungardenlike (comparative more ungardenlike, superlative most ungardenlike)

  1. Unlike a garden.
    • How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth and sun, air and virtue!...1840, John Henry Newman, The Church of the Fathers, section VIII

Forms of ungardenlike

comparativemore ungardenlike
superlativemost ungardenlike

Origin of ungardenlike

From un- + gardenlike.

Questions about ungardenlike

What does ungardenlike mean?
Ungardenlike means unlike a garden.
What part of speech is ungardenlike?
Ungardenlike is an adjective.

Words near ungardenlike in the dictionary

  1. ungarbled
  2. ungarbles
  3. ungarbling
  4. ungarded
  5. ungardened
  6. ungardenlike
  7. Ungarettian
  8. ungarettiite
  9. ungargled
  10. Ungarie
  11. Ungarinyin

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