English edit

Etymology edit

dulcimer +‎ -like

Adjective edit

dulcimerlike (comparative more dulcimerlike, superlative most dulcimerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.
    • 2007 December 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Dreams (and Instruments) of a Visionary Tinkerer”, in New York Times[1]:
      A gently droning main theme on a dulcimerlike instrument sets the mood as other instruments enter with delicate sliding figurations, speckled bursts of percussion and sustained chords that sound entrancingly off-pitch.