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Zelda-like

Zelda-like adjective: resembling or characteristic of American novelist, painter, playwright, and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948).

Adjective

Zelda-like or Zelda-like (sense 2) (comparative more Zelda-like, superlative most Zelda-like)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of American novelist, painter, playwright, and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948).
    • Most Zelda-like, and so is her subsequently futile, shabby career, a series of TV parts.1971 February 15, John Seelye, “The Persistence of the Suffering Woman”, in New York, volume 4, number 7, page 40
    • Though she has been hunting for another story that would allow her to create a Zelda-like role, she still is holding out for the real thing.1973, Good Housekeeping, page 139
  2. Having similar characteristics such as atmosphere and gameplay to the Legend of Zelda series.
    • The Tale Of Poporokuroisu – a Zelda-like RPG with great characterisation (SCE)1994 August, Edge, number 11, page 41
    • At its heart, “Legacy of Goku” combines RPG and action elements to form a very Zelda-like feeling, but with the addition of experience points.2003, Pojo’s Unofficial Dragon Ball Z: The Complete Player and Collector’s Guide to Every Card and Character, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 46

Examples of Zelda-like in a sentence

  • Traces the Zelda-like Southern belle figure from warm and charming in “The Ice Palace” to vicious and cruel in “The Last of the Belles”; […]1984, Jackson R. Bryer, The Critical Reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Through 1981, Archon Books, →ISBN, page 177:
  • Only in the Zelda-like crazy wife in The Garden of Eden would he [Ernest Hemingway] be able to see himself in such a woman.1987, Kenneth Schuyler Lynn, Hemingway, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 288:
  • When James Jones finished the long haul of From Here to Eternity, he, Zelda-like, gave himself up to the dance.1990, Suzanne Comer, Common Bonds: Stories by and about Modern Texas Women, Southern Methodist University Press, →ISBN, page 110:
  • Gradually, she replaces her belief in Bill with a Zelda-like devotion to ballet, by which she regains her youthfulness.1995, Elizabeth Anne Weston, The International Theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Literature, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 72:

Synonyms of Zelda-like

Forms of Zelda-like

comparativemore Zelda-like
superlativemost Zelda-like
alternative formZeldalike

Origin of Zelda-like

From Zelda + -like.

Questions about Zelda-like

What does Zelda-like mean?
Zelda-like means resembling or characteristic of American novelist, painter, playwright, and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948).
How do you use Zelda-like in a sentence?
Traces the Zelda-like Southern belle figure from warm and charming in “The Ice Palace” to vicious and cruel in “The Last of the Belles”; […]
What part of speech is Zelda-like?
Zelda-like is an adjective.

Words near Zelda-like in the dictionary

  1. Zelazny
  2. Zelaznys
  3. zelcova
  4. zelcovas
  5. Zelda
  6. Zelda-like
  7. Zeldaesque
  8. Zeldalike
  9. Zeldas
  10. Zeldavanias
  11. Zeldin

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