dove-like
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of dovelike.
Example Sentences
- "Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…]."
- "While he went on, and learnedly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his choſen Text, / I caſt my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the ſounding Board. / That Bird, thought I, was put there as a Sign / What Kind of Spirit guides a good Divine: […]"
- "She had her pets as well as he, and her life and that of her future partner promised to be as dove-like as possible."
- "[…] and she was so dove-like, so pure, and so gracious, so sweet and bewitching."
- "As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!"
Inflected Forms
more dove-like (comparative)
most dove-like (superlative)