Meanings
comparative more wedgelike · superlative most wedgelike · alternative wedge-like
- Shaped like a wedge.
1 more example
He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration
Fanny Hill
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLCSynonyms: cuneate, cuneiform, wedge-shaped, wedgy
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveShaped like a wedge.
Origin
- Englishwedge
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishwedgelike
Translations
Bulgarian клинообразен
- клинообразен (klinoobrazen)shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Catalan cuneïforme
- cuneïformeshaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Finnish kiilamainen
- kiilamainenshaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
German keilförmig
- keilförmigshaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Greek σφηνοειδής
- σφηνοειδής (sfinoeidís)shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Polish klinowy, klinowaty
- klinowyshaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
- klinowatyshaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Russian клинови́дный, клинообра́зный
- клинови́дный (klinovídnyj)shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
- клинообра́зный (klinoobráznyj)shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Ukrainian клиноподі́бний
- клиноподі́бний (klynopodíbnyj)shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform
Cite this entry
wedgelike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedgelike
“wedgelike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedgelike. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wedgelike,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedgelike.
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