prisonerlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.

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Meanings

adjectiveprisonerlike (comparative more prisonerlike, superlative most prisonerlike)

comparative more prisonerlike · superlative most prisonerlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.

    As is revealed in her dream, she needs to be saved from the repressed, prisonerlike existence she endures at the top of the pillar...

    1982, Harry Gilbert Carlson, Strindberg and the poetry of myth

Origin

From prisoner + -like.

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APA

prisonerlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonerlike

MLA

“prisonerlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonerlike. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prisonerlike,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonerlike.

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