Adjective
Resembling or similar to a monkey.
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a monkeylike skull
monkeylike curiosity
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It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi.
Adverb
In the manner of a monkey.
Usage- not-comparable