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Etymology

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adjective +‎ -like

Adjective

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adjectivelike (comparative more adjectivelike, superlative most adjectivelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an adjective.
    • 2022 June 16, Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári, “Between adjective and noun”, in Acta Linguistica Academica[1]:
      A number of both lexemes and word forms seem to be located within the two endpoints of this scale, and can thus be identified only as “more nounlike, less adjectivelike” or “less nounlike, more adjectivelike”.