gunlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gun.
Example Sentences
- "A mile in, he’s usually got one in each hand but is still on the lookout for an upgrade: anything smoother or more gunlike."
- "When sensors record a gunlike noise in, say, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen to those audio files and look at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif."
Etymology
From gun + -like.
Inflected Forms
more gunlike (comparative)
most gunlike (superlative)