Aesop-like

adjective

Resembling a fable or moral of Aesop.

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Meanings

adjectiveAesop-like (comparative more Aesop-like, superlative most Aesop-like)

comparative more Aesop-like · superlative most Aesop-like · alternative Aesoplike

  1. Resembling a fable or moral of Aesop.

    As regards the map, this was the beginning of an Aesop-like fable - 'How the Underground lines got their colours' - because they were all given a colour, although not the 'right' ones from today's perspective.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158

Origin

From Aesop + -like.

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APA

Aesop-like. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aesop-like

MLA

“Aesop-like.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aesop-like. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Aesop-like,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aesop-like.

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