boatlike

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adjective

Resembling a boat

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

adjectiveboatlike (comparative more boatlike, superlative most boatlike)

comparative more boatlike · superlative most boatlike

  1. Resembling a boat

    The bigger problem, though, was finding a space that could accommodate the boatlike LS, which is 198 inches long.

    2007 October 24, Jeffrey Selingo, “How Well Can a Lexus Park Itself?”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishboat
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishboatlike

From boat + -like.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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