monkeylike

comparative more monkeylike · superlative most monkeylike · alternative monkey-like

1. Resembling or similar to a monkey.

   a monkeylike skull

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   monkeylike curiosity

   It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi.

   2008 April 3, John Noble Wilford, “One-Ounce Mississippian of 55.8 Million Years Ago”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: monkeyesque, monkeyish

alternative monkey-like

1. not comparableIn the manner of a monkey.