lightninglike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of lightning.

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Meanings

adjectivelightninglike (comparative more lightninglike, superlative most lightninglike)

comparative more lightninglike · superlative most lightninglike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of lightning.

    Connecting the images is the oratorio’s Latin text in calligraphy, by Brody Neusenschwander, that scrolls up the screen sideways in lightninglike flashes that disappear almost in the blink of eye.

    2007 April 27, Stephen Holden, “Mankind’s Appetite for Destruction in the 20th Century”, in New York Times

Origin

From lightning + -like.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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