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wallpaperlike

wallpaperlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.

Adjective

wallpaperlike (comparative more wallpaperlike, superlative most wallpaperlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
    • In it four images of a stunningly beautiful, scantily clad blonde are set against a wallpaperlike expanse of the splintery images of H. C. Westermann — an excellent artist who is not on many collectors’ must-have lists these days.2008 February 15, Roberta Smith, “Rounding Up the Usual Suspects”, in New York Times

Forms of wallpaperlike

comparativemore wallpaperlike
superlativemost wallpaperlike

Origin of wallpaperlike

From wallpaper + -like.

Questions about wallpaperlike

What does wallpaperlike mean?
Wallpaperlike means resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
What part of speech is wallpaperlike?
Wallpaperlike is an adjective.

Words near wallpaperlike in the dictionary

  1. wallpapered
  2. wallpaperer
  3. wallpaperers
  4. Wallpapergate
  5. wallpapering
  6. wallpaperlike
  7. wallpapers
  8. wallpapery
  9. wallpepper
  10. wallpeppers
  11. wallpiece

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