mazelike

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adjective

Like a maze; labyrinthine.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivemazelike (comparative more mazelike, superlative most mazelike)

comparative more mazelike · superlative most mazelike

  1. Like a maze; labyrinthine.

    The dark New York restaurant is a mazelike “ninja village,” with iron bars and cold stone lining the walls.

    2015 April 30, Jordan Bissell, “10 wacky U.S. restaurants”, in CNN
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    If a military man with AIDS were discharged for homosexuality, he would lose his medical benefits and be thrown into the already overtaxed and maze-like system of public welfare.

    1985 February 9, Cindy Patton, “Heterosexual AIDS Panic: A Queer Paradigm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 3

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Englishmaze
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishmazelike

From maze + -like.

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APA

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Chicago

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