appliancelike

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adjective

Resembling an appliance

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English appliance →
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Meanings

adjectiveappliancelike (comparative more appliancelike, superlative most appliancelike)

comparative more appliancelike · superlative most appliancelike

  1. Resembling an appliance

    That led him and Mr. Rossmann, a former Apple executive who has started many Silicon Valley companies, to pursue the possibility of creating an appliancelike computer tailored to consumers who have no computer expertise.

    2007 July 16, John Markoff, “A PC That Uses Less Energy, but Charges a Monthly Fee”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishappliance
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishappliancelike

From appliance + -like.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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