Suffix
Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).
Usage- morpheme
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Even at 13 years old, she still had a childlike voice.
I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.
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1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark" Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind
What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods? […] Because the audience couldn’t possibly be expected to know who the Curies were, let alone that they were married and died of radiation poisoning, and devoting precious time to a scene of the scientists as Mothra-like destroyers does nothing but waste time and alienate an audience that just wants to hear characters spout their catchphrases.
Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly.
Usage- dialectal
- morpheme
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The Spanish speak machine-gun-like.
Hah! Big, bad Punio. Listen to yourself! Trying to sound all important-like!