ovenlike

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adjective

Resembling an oven, especially in shape

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

adjectiveovenlike (comparative more ovenlike, superlative most ovenlike)

comparative more ovenlike · superlative most ovenlike · alternative oven-like

  1. Resembling an oven, especially in shape

    The massive bricks and low arches of this hall make it dungeonlike, even ovenlike.

    1988 January 29, Kitry Krause, “Casting Out the Nazis”, in Chicago Reader
  2. Resembling the temperature inside a hot oven.

Origin

  1. Englishoven
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishovenlike

From oven + -like.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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