adjectivelike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of an adjective.

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Meanings

adjectiveadjectivelike (comparative more adjectivelike, superlative most adjectivelike)

comparative more adjectivelike · superlative most adjectivelike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an adjective.

    A number of both lexemes and word forms seem to be located within the two endpoints of this scale, and can thus be identified only as “more nounlike, less adjectivelike” or “less nounlike, more adjectivelike”.

    2022 June 16, Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári, “Between adjective and noun”, in Acta Linguistica Academica, volume 69, number 2, →DOI, pages 188-205

Origin

From adjective + -like.

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APA

adjectivelike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adjectivelike

MLA

“adjectivelike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adjectivelike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adjectivelike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adjectivelike.

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